Applied Social Psychology

The Psychology of Advertising

The Psychology of Advertising
  • By Bob M. Fennis, and Wolfgang Stroebe.

Published May 2010

Advertising is a ubiquitous and powerful force, seducing us into buying wanted and sometimes unwanted products and services, donating to charity (even to causes we have not heard of before), voting for political candidates (even of questionable reputation), and changing our health-related…
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An Introduction to Theories of Personality

7th Edition

An Introduction to Theories of Personality
  • By Robert B. Ewen.

Published October 2009

This 7th Edition helps students unravel the mysteries of human behavior through its highly readable introduction to the ideas of the most significant personality theorists. Engaging biographical sketches begin each chapter, and unique capsule summaries help students review key concepts. …
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Predicting and Changing Behavior

The Reasoned Action Approach

Predicting and Changing Behavior
  • By Martin Fishbein, and Icek Ajzen.

Published July 2009

This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant research, discusses critical issues related to the reasoned action framework, and provides methodological and conceptual…
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Journeys in Social Psychology

Looking Back to Inspire the Future

Journeys in Social Psychology
  • Edited by Robert Levine, Aroldo Rodrigues and Lynnette Zelezny.

Published January 2008

This volume consists of personal narrative accounts of the career journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists. Each contributing psychologist is an esteemed scholar, an excellent writer, and has a story to tell. Together, the contributions cover a time…
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Sport Psychology

Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, Individuals, and Teams

Sport Psychology
  • By Nicholas T. Gallucci.

Published December 2007

Sport Psychology is a senior undergraduate textbook that provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance. After the introductory chapters, there are three main sections to the text: Performance Enhancement covers…
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Applying Emotional Intelligence

A Practitioner's Guide

Applying Emotional Intelligence
  • Edited by Joseph Ciarrochi, and John D. Mayer.

Published January 2007

The explosion of research on emotional intelligence (EI) in the past decade has provided increasing evidence that EI can be measured reliably and can be useful in predicting important outcomes, such as managerial effectiveness and relationship quality. Naturally, people are now asking, "So, how…
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The Scope of Social Psychology

Theory and Applications

The Scope of Social Psychology
  • Edited by Miles Hewstone, Henk Schut, John de Wit, Kees Van Den Bos and Margaret Stroebe.

Published January 2007

Social psychology attempts to understand, explain, predict and, when needed, change people's thoughts, feelings and behaviours. For a relatively young discipline it has already made great strides toward this awe-inspiring goal. Pioneers such as Lewin, Asch, Kelley and Festinger began…
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Indigenous Psychologies

A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

Indigenous Psychologies
  • Edited by Carl Martin Allwood, and John Berry.

Published June 2006

Indigenous psychologies are attempts to portray the concepts, and to present the evidence, about human behaviour and experience from a point of view within the cultural traditions of the group. It takes a position that distances itself from a uniform (usually Western) psychology, and explores human…
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Social Psychology and Economics

Social Psychology and Economics
  • Edited by David De Cremer, Marcel Zeelenberg and J. Keith Murnighan.

Published June 2006

This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world. It provides insights from both fields, communicated by eloquent scholars, and demonstrates through recent…
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Children's Understanding of Society

Children's Understanding of Society
  • Edited by Martyn Barrett, and Eithne Buchanan-Barrow.

Published December 2004

A state-of-the-art review of the research in this area, this collection covers children's understanding of family, school, economics, race, politics and gender roles. Recent changes and trends in research are summarised. This is explained in terms of a progression from the Piagetian stages model of…
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