Social Psychology Arena

Rationality and Social Responsibility

Essays in Honor of Robyn Mason Dawes

• Edited by Joachim I. Krueger

This volume brings together a diverse group of authors who have been associated with Robyn Dawes over the years. The breadth of topics covered reflects...

Published April 9th 2008 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Attitudes

Their Structure, Function, and Consequences

• Edited by Russell H. Fazio, Richard E. PettyArie W. Kruglanski
• Series Editor: Arie W. Kruglanski

The study of likes and dislikes - what social psychologists refer to as "attitudes" - has been a central focus of the field for decades....

Published August 20th 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas

The role of affect in how people think and behave in social situations has been a source of fascination to laymen and philosophers since time...

Published August 4th 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Attitudes

• Edited by Geoffrey Haddock, Gregory R. Maio

What is an attitude? How do different research approaches characterise 'attitude' and its applications in social psychology?

The Attitude concept has long formed an indispensable construct...

Published September 2nd 2004 by Psychology Press.

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Persuasion in Advertising

• By John O'Shaugnessy, Nicholas O'Shaugnessy

Effective advertising is, almost always, persuasive advertising, and while not all advertising seeks to persuade, in a competitive situation those who best persuade are those...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing

• By Klaus Fiedler, Eva Walther

Traditional social hypotheses have a built-in tendency to verify themselves and so involuntarily resist attempts at stereotype change or correction. This is the insight demonstrated...

Published November 6th 2003 by Psychology Press.

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Social Influence

• By Joseph P. Forgas

Social influence processes play a key role in human behavior. Arguably our extraordinary evolutionary success has much to do with our subtle and highly developed...

Published June 14th 2002 by Psychology Press.

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Attitudes and Attitude Change

• By Gerd Bohner, Michaela Wanke

Attitudes - cognitive representations of our evaluation of ourselves, other people, things, actions, events, ideas - and attitude change have been a central concern in...

Published February 21st 2002 by Psychology Press.

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Attitudes and Persuasion

• By Philip Erwin

Attitudes and Persuasion provides an up-to-date overview of the crucial role that attitudes play in our everyday lives and how our thoughts and behaviour are...

Published August 16th 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Social Influences

• By Kevin Wren

Published August 5th 1999 by Routledge.

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