Social Psychology [with SocialSense CD-ROM & PowerWeb]

by David G. Myers

David myers' "social psychology" continues to set the standard by which other social psychology texts are judged. Its renowned author's engaging writing style and unique, intimate voice make the text compelling without being simplistic. The organization logically moves the student through the study of how people think, influence, and relate, with an appropriate balance of basic research and applied material. This edition offers greater emphasis on contemporary research, and uses video clips and vignettes to emphasize the relevance of social psychology research.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Sociology, School, Reference, Science

736 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

David G. Myers is a professor of Psychology at Hope College in Michigan, and the author of 17 books, including popular textbooks entitled Psychology, Exploring Psychology, Social Psychology and several general-audience books dealing with issues related to Christian faith as well as scientific psychology.

Reviews

[Xeon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Implementation intentions are "People’s specific plans about where, when, and how they will fulfill a goal and avoid temptations" originating from Gollwitzer 1999. Studies seem to demonstrate that greater specificity such as this best ensures changes in behavior.

Let us try to instantiate some elementary implementation intentions based upon what I have learned from social psychology, elsewise what was the point?

I shall uphold a bystander promise, to never be a bystander. When I see harm or injustice incurring, that I shall take action if I can. I will not idle and wait. (infamous 1964 stabbing of Genovese in New York, Latané and Darley 1970). That learning about the bystander effect may keep me from being a bystander (Beaman et al., 1978).

I shall uphold ideals such as rationality and contrarianism more now. I will think for myself, avoiding conforming unnecessarily (not all conformity is bad), and that I shall try to do what is right, not what is popular. (Holocaust, Asch 1950s, Milgram 1960s)

I shall try be more inclusive with my circle of concern, to acknowledge the differences of others and out groups, and to transcend our differences by personalizing individuals and finding our commonalities (Sherif 1966 camps of 12 year old boys)

I shall seek more integrative agreements in the endeavor of achieving more peace (Pruitt and Lewis 1975).

I shall guard my mind and control my inputs so as to statistically reduce the probabilities of holding implicit attitudes of prejudice, unintentionally discriminating, or acting more aggressively than otherwise (implicit associations test Greenwall McGhee and Schwartz 1998, Rosenthal and Jacobson 1968 school children, priming, and swamp of studies about violence in media). Hoping instead prosocial behavior may manifest in its place.

But most of all, I shall ensure I myself do not possess a "bias blind spot", guilty of the very problems which plague us (Pronin et al 2002).

Going forth, I hope that having glimpsed into the depths of our collective conduct may allow me to contribute towards a more just and humane society.

[Darya Silman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally, I overcame this mammoth of a book. Almost 600 pages of new information: numbers, definitions, and names. Unfortunately, our libraries don't have the 9th edition that it used in social psychology courses now, and a new book's price even on Kindle far exceeds my desire to read it. So, I had to go on with an edition back from 1993.

The book is a base of any course on social psychology. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another (p.3). Thus, the book is divided into three parts, each explaining one aspect of social relations.

My edition (and the first chapter of the 9th edition that I could find online) is written in comprehendable language, with examples both from scientific experiments and everyday life. On the margins, there are important definitions, so that a reader doesn't have to look them up in the body text. Almost every page contains a figure or a picture.

Though I wanted the book to be entertaining (entertaining for nonfiction geeks like myself), the right way to read it is, of course, with a notebook/laptop, taking notes and remembering the facts. I don't think I'll recall any definitions in a week, but I'll surely remember the examples like the famous Standford University prison experiment or two boycamps' staged warfare experiment.

While I was reading, I kept thinking of how much things have changed since 1993. 9/11, the Arab spring, escalation of Israeli-Palestine conflict, BLM, the second Cold War, smartphones, the urgency of climate change, and Covid. Americanization of my Estonia... And the book still has a chapter dedicated to desegregation of schools in the US...

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far, this is my favorite subject in psychology. I love this text book and that probably makes me a huge dork. It was witty and fun. I read chapters I didn't even have to, which makes me a huge nerd too.

[Johnny Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have very little to say in criticism to this book. I really enjoyed the layout and the structure of the material. There's only a single thing I want to point out.
Some of the evolutionary proposals in this book are highly dubious. It seemed to me that the evolutionary structure assumed in this book was an old 80s view that involves game-centered and gene-centered approaches. This view has largely been done away with and a pluralistic view has been adopted. Natural selection is no longer the necessary center of evolutionary theory. Also, traits aren't assumed to be adaptive. It's considered null at the outset. In evolutionary psychology, we can look at traits and work our way back to wondering "why?" And we can offer evolutionary explanations. We can conjure up reasons of to how some trait could assist in survival or reproduction. However, this isn't sufficient for proof and it's not scientific. We can offer sociocultural explanations just as easily as evolutionary ones. That being said, evolutionary explanations in psychology aren't entirely without merit; however; I'm suggesting to take them with a grain of salt. In philosophy of biology, when we just slap some possible evolutionarily *adaptive* explanation onto things, this is along the lines of "explanatory adaptationism," which is more aesthetic-based than scientific. Moreover, adaptationism is no longer, as mentioned, central. A pluralistic view has been adopted. So, I'm really suggesting that there may be a disconnect between the psychologists and the biologists/philosophers of biology insofar as evolutionary ideals go.

[Henri Tournyol du Clos · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish this kind of intelligent, wide-ranging (800pp) and eye-opening textbook had been around when I was studying business some 35 years ago. I would have devoted more time since then to following the developments of psychology, instead of just deducting from the ineptitude of what was taught to us that it was all just a waste of time. But then, I suppose psychology has changed a lot since 1980, with charlatanistic mumbo-jumbo being gradually replaced with a corpus of nearly scientific results. Anyway, it is a pleasure to catch up in this opus.

The main fault of this book is that it seems to consider nearly all published psychology results as trustworthy, although psychological research is notoriously oversold [see: Fanelli & Ioannidis - US studies may overestimate effect sizes in softer research - PNAS, August 2013 ] and mostly based on experiments on small, non-significative numbers of a population itself non-significative, US undergraduates... [see: Henrich, Heine & Norenzayan - The Weirdest people in the world? - 2009] What this book thus lacks, and needs, is a rigorous screening between what is well established and what is not.

[Nikolay Korablev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very readable, a lot of studies cited, mostly neutral point of view. A more substantial criticism would entail a thorough analysis of these source studies, so if something in the field is overblown or ignored on the pages of this volume, I'm really in no position to say. Still, pondering over the implications of some of the things discussed has given me more than a few happy hours.

[Medea]

ders kitabı olabilir ama teknik olarak bu kitabı başından sonuna kadar ve çoğu kısmı iki defa olmak üzere okudum. başlarının ne kadar acı verici olduğu ve sınavlardan önceki günler gözyaşlarımla ıslandığını düşünürsek buraya eklemeye hakkım var bence. kalan bölümleri son bir ayda okuyup bitirdim. kendisini yakmayıp da okumayı tercih etmem dışında bu kitabın en büyük trajedisi: eğer ders kitabı boyunda değil de normal boyda ve popüler bir yayınevinden çıksaydı onlarca baskı yapıp çoğu kişinin başucu kitabı olurdu.

[Malek Atia · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bit long but overall really great

[Yorick Calvino · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pros:
Interesting subject matter presented in an interesting way.
The writing is clear and easy to follow.
The descriptions of experiments and studies supporting the arguments act as great learning tools.

Cons:
The authorial tone is moralistic and a little too friendly in an unappealing way. This is a textbook, give me the facts, you know? And what the hell does that last chapter about the environment have to do with anything? Really unnecessary.
Too many examples and anecdotes for such a long book.
Can be repetitive at times.

[Uğur · Rating 5 out of 5]

The social environment and social structure, which is a phenomenon that affects, shapes, directs and even manipulates a person, has been dealt with by psychology as a problem in itself. By defining this field as social psychology, Myers has assumed a serious responsibility in the diagnosis and solution of the problem by evaluating the social intelligence of the person, social dominance and its effects, the legitimation process of the system, the social identity approach and the family factor under the main headings.

Although psychological problems are experienced individually, the power of social influence is undeniably great in the emergence of this. In this sense, an analysis method from general to specific can also be interpreted as the contribution of social psychology to clinical psychology.

The direct impact of the family factor on the feeling of guilt that every individual experienced intensely in childhood meant the emergence of social psychology. Since the exposure of an individual to incorrect and incomplete emotions and behaviors in childhood means the first step to turning into a "criminal" in the future, the risk areas of childhood should be eliminated by their grown-up parents. This is the first application area of social psychology.

Positive and negative social psychology in addressing the relationship of the individual with the social environment, people by examining their historical processes, the hunter-gatherer period in the agricultural era, after the Industrial Revolution, and today, it examines how the social nature. Today, while Decrying the socio-economic classes and the problems that arise specific to these classes, he also studies the conflicts between classes. Our author has listed his determinations dedicated to these main titles with his narrations.

In addition to these, Myers also examines ideological and political movements and also deals with the phenomena of violence that are unique to them. At this point, he did not ignore the topic of political communication, but discussed in detail how societies have changed their ways of thinking and perception in mass communication. In particular, "believable lies, as political manipulators know, can replace complex truths." with his word, he described in a single sentence the tactic followed by the propagandist of Nazi Germany, Goebbels. Pleasant, although it went with the example of Nazi Germany, it is also possible to see it in our country as a method used by democratic nazis today.

A very equipped, very effective book. The theory of social psychology, which is directly related to many fields such as sociology, philosophy, history, communication science, social sciences compared to other psychological theories, continues its development as the only theory that has been able to deal with the human being in the widest scope. In this sense, I think that readers who are interested in the knowledge of society should have this masterpiece. Have a pleasant reading.

[Jacki Couture de Hernández · Rating 4 out of 5]

I hated every minute of reading and annotating this mammoth, but I can't lie, I learned so much from it. It's one of those textbooks that I'm constantly referring to in day to day conversations and will continue to do so.

[Ihor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Дуже ґрунтовна праця. Думав, що не осилю)) Якщо хочеться розібратись із соціальною психологією, то ця книга - саме те, що треба.

[Iselin]

Finally finished! Not a terrible textbook by any means, but a lot of repetition I think was unnecessary.

[Ajibola S · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was the recommended text from an elective course in Psychology i took in the university. I recall that it was witty, informative and very well written.

[Barack Liu · Rating 5 out of 5]

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—— " Truth becomes obvious only when it is discovered. "

"Social Psychology", first published in the United States in 1983. Psychological books. It mainly explores how people think, influence and connect with others.

David Myers was born in Seattle, Washington in 1942. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry and a Master of Social Psychology from Whitworth University, and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Iowa. Representative works: "Social Psychology", "Psychology", "Where is the Charm", "Invisible Influence", etc.

Part of the catalog
1. Introduction to Social Psychology
2. Self in society
3. Social beliefs and judgments
4. Behavior and attitude
5. Genes, culture and gender
6. Follow the crowd
7. Persuade
8. Group influence
9. Bias: dislike others
10. Aggressive behavior: hurt others

Social psychology can be considered as an interdisciplinary subject of sociology and psychology. It studies the psychology and behavior of people in certain social situations.

Humans are creatures in situations. The environment, especially the social environment, often affects people's attitudes and behaviors. Because we are inseparable from the collective, we often correct our behavior by observing the collective behavior in order to integrate into the collective. However, the behavior that most people do is not equal to the right behavior, and the things that most people don't do are not the same as wrong behavior. Therefore, if someone uses "everyone else to do this or others do not" as a reason for their behavior, you should realize that this argument is pale and weak.

"Pride and prejudice" are almost everyone's personality traits, but the degree and the target are different. We are often blindly optimistic about things. A good example is that people often take longer to complete their work than they estimated. We tend to like people who agree with us, and hate people who are different from us.

Everyone has a potential motivation to maintain their own image. This invisibly makes people not only insist on what they believe, but also gradually believe in what they insist on. From a sense, a lie told a thousand times becomes a psychological truth, and "three into a tiger," the law often come into play. This law can also be used on the positive side, and can be used to give positive psychological hints to the self.

Conformity is a very interesting phenomenon, and the book "The Crowd" has discussed it a lot. The evil of the collective is a topic worthy of further investigation. It makes people realize how individual alienation is produced in the collective. In the war, the collective evil is most obvious. When individuals in a group cause harm to others, the more the group, the further the distance between the perpetrator and the victim, and the easier it is for the perpetrator to complete the process of violence. When soldiers are in the army, even acts of fornication, looting and genocide do not seem so terrible; when soldiers use bullets, artillery shells or even remote control drones to launch attacks, the killing behavior is even greater. Easy to produce . Studies have shown that during World War II, many soldiers often seemed hesitant and hesitant when fighting face to face.

There is a inducing others to obey your way , that is, to induce people to make your desired behavior, and gradually induce the other party to make a deeper level of behavior. If you have the opportunity, you can try this method. For example, when you want to ask someone for help, first ask the other person for a smaller favor and get the other person’s promise, and then you make a more difficult request to the other person. , This is more likely to be accepted than if you directly make a difficult request to the other party. Conversely, when people try to persuade you in this way, you can try to ask more questions about the persuader, or you can have multiple people narrate the persuader 's position and viewpoint.

Refutation helps to cultivate critical thinking and resist persuasion. I often encounter this situation in my home environment and school environment. When I ask questions about the other side’s point of view, the other side always interrupts roughly or does not answer directly, but says rudely, "Listen I just said it. Now you are talking to me about the problem, it doesn’t matter what you think. The important thing is to listen to my point of view.” In this case, I often have no intention to continue the discussion, and always perfunctory It's a matter of fact, the preaching or advice of the other party is quickly forgotten. Conversely, if each of your attacks on the opponent's point of view can be answered to your satisfaction, then you will accept this point of view willingly instead of being forced to accept it.

People often internalize actions that are made automatically, publicly, and repeatedly. Our emotions and attitudes affect our behavior; in turn, our actions also affect our emotions and attitudes. When we are in a bad mood, singing may be able to make us feel positive.

" Social psychology is a science that studies the power of the situation around us, with particular attention to how we perceive others and how we influence others. More precisely, social psychology is the subject of how people perceive others. How to influence others and how to relate to each other is the subject of scientific research. It achieves this goal by asking questions that arouse the great interest of all of us . "

" What is the important subject of social psychology-what is in its all-encompassing basket? There are many fields in this discipline, the results of tens of thousands of studies, the conclusions drawn by thousands of researchers, and The insights put forward by hundreds of theorists can be condensed into a few core viewpoints. "

The reason why we say that books are the ladder of human wisdom is because it can carry the wisdom of predecessors. Later generations do not need to rethink and explore the problems that the predecessors have studied in depth , but can basically understand the most valuable conclusions drawn by outstanding scientists in 10 years of research through just 10 hours of reading. . So we can use the wheels made by our predecessors to solve new problems in our lives , instead of continuing to spend time on old problems .

" Psychology as a science, it reveals an amazing unconscious mind-a mind manipulated by intuition behind the scenes-this is a mind that Freud never told us. Before we have no consciousness 10 years or more before the time. Thinking is not carried out on the stage, but carried out under the stage, out of our sight. As we will see, the "automatic processing" , "Implicit memory", "heuristic thinking", "immediate feature inference" research, instant emotion and nonverbal communication all reflect our intuition ability. Thinking, memory and attitude are all operating on two levels at the same time : One is conscious and intentional: the other is unconscious and automatic. Scholars today call it "dual processing." We know more than we know ourselves. "

Jobs is a person who relies heavily on intuition to make decisions. This aspect allows him to keenly discover details and ideas that other people cannot pay attention to. But on the other hand it also made him sometimes seem too stubborn, denying some objective facts.

" Knowledge is one unit. Dividing it into different disciplines just succumbed to human weakness. "

The knowledge stored by mankind has developed to this day. Because the amount of knowledge stored in various disciplines is too large, no one can master all the fields he is interested in. But he should have a basic understanding of the core ideas in all areas of interest. To do this is feasible. He does not need to be experts in every field, but will need to have a way to understand the various parts of the knowledge of the subject of the effect , and through integration of the capability. This means that we look at the problem to be able to start from more perspectives, such as from an engineering point of view, from the artistic point of view, from an economic point of view, from a psychological point of view, from a political point of view, from a philosophical point of view. As all the world's polyhedron things are the same , when the number of angles that we can run out to analyze and predict things, we tend to be easier to get accurate predictions, therefore, we understand the past and present as well as the ability to predict the future will also be Promote.

" Objective realities do exist, but we always observe them through the glasses of beliefs and values. "

It is precisely because when everyone wears different glasses, we will have differences and cannot reach cooperation. A person who can lead and influence others has the ability to change the glasses of others . Either you are equipped with multiple pairs of glasses and can always look at problems with others' glasses . And those who are unable to influence the opinions of others , nor can they imitate the opinions of others, are the majority of ordinary people.

" Like many scenes in life, the discoveries of social psychology sometimes seem obvious. However, the results revealed by the experimental studies only become "obvious" after the facts are known. This kind of hindsight prejudice often Cause people to overestimate their own judgments and predictions. "

This is very obvious in life. In fact, most difficult decisions or wonderful innovations in life are not difficult to understand. After piercing the window paper and telling the neglected truth or innovative method , people feel that if they are in the situation at the time, they can easily come up with this idea. This is an obvious overestimation of self.

" "Science is built by facts, just as houses are built by bricks." "But a pile of facts is not science, just as a pile of bricks is not a house. " "

The house essentially refers to a structure. Even if we change a building material, what is formed according to this organizational structure is still a house. Similarly , in some theoretical science attempts to reveal the also it is some kind of universal representation under the concept. The facts developed and embodied according to this law are what we see. The difference between ordinary people and scientists is that ordinary people will not think further after seeing specific facts. Sometimes the situation changes, the facts we see will be different. But the laws behind this fact are still the same. When ordinary people see a house , we see bricks. When a wise man sees a house , he sees the concept of a virtual house that only exists in our minds.

"The common change between two variables allows us to use one variable to predict another variable. But correlation does not clearly explain the causal relationship. "

Attribution fallacy is a mistake we often make. We all know that rain and thunder will produce lightning and thunder. But lightning is not caused by thunder , nor is thunder caused by lightning. This means that when we find that event a and event b have the same tendency to appear or disappear at the same time, it is not necessarily because a leads to b , or b leads to a. It is also possible that a and b are caused by a factor c that we do not yet know .

" The setting of questions in the survey is a very delicate link. Even when people say that they have answered a certain question very positively, be aware that the form and wording of the question may also affect their answer. The order, options, and the effectiveness of the wording make Politicians use the results of surveys to show public support for their views. Consultants, consultants, and physicians use "constructed" options to influence our decisions. "

So when we see a survey, we should not be busy expressing opinions, we should first look at the specific content of the questionnaire. When the survey results indicate that X% of people have a certain opinion , it is possible that what X% really wants to express is different from what we imagine they want to express .

" Social psychologists construct their ideas and discoveries into theories. A good theory will extract many short prediction principles from a long list of facts. We can use these prediction principles to verify the theory. Or modify it to Generate new research and apply it to practice. "

" There is one thing in the entire universe, and there is only one thing, and that is that we know more than we can learn from external observation," "This is'ourselves'. We, so to speak, have inner information; we know inner information. " "

Although we can be the world's most understanding of their own people, but we have run out of a life time , not able to do fully understand. Some people give up self-exploration, and some people choose to stick to the last moment of their lives.

. "When there is a feeling they felt like it would never leave; When it left, it felt as if they had from the future: When it come back, they sense that it seems to never leave."

The so-called "this was wrong," Today I could not understand yesterday's I , myself tomorrow also may not understand their own today. When we are in a certain emotion , it is difficult to escape from this emotion, and when we are not in this emotion, it is difficult to imagine this emotion.

" We often "wrongly want to get something". People often imagine having an idyllic desert island vacation with sun, waves and sandy beaches, but once they realize "how much they need daily life, intellectual development or fashionable dress" Sometimes, you may be disappointed. "

" Dogs who are locked in a cage and cannot escape the electric shock will learn a sense of helplessness. Later these dogs will only cower passively even under other conditions that can evade punishment... If the dog learns to control itself ( Successfully avoiding the first shock) will make it easier to adapt to new situations. "

"A lot of studies have shown the benefits of efficacy and control. People who believe in their ability and efficiency and those who are internally controlled will cope better than those who are learned helpless and pessimistic and hopeless. And achieve greater results. Achievement. "

Jobs is an obvious person with high self-esteem. He was not only wanton ridicule and insult shame those who in his view, lack of capacity. Still unscrupulously regard other people's ideas as his own original.

" When we are convinced that we feel good, our sense of self-defense will decrease. We will not be so thin-skinned and good to comment, and will not praise those who like us or accuse those who do not like us. "

[Lizzy Li · Rating 2 out of 5]

very much meh

- ive read worse and ive read better textbooks
- explained things clearly
- too long

[Kaliseviltwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oy vey. This textbook is dense. It made me feel dense. And I don't mean because the concepts are so deep. I mean that the pages are HUGE, the typeface is small, and Myers must pack seventy researcher names into every paragraph. Seriously uninteresting presentation of some very interesting concepts.

The textbook is not so well organized. There is a chapter "table of contents" at the beginning of each chapter, but each chapters ends with an "op-ed" piece by Myers on how we as students can make the world a warm and fuzzy place if we use the concepts learned in the chapter. A nice gesture, but after reading 40 pages (of what turns out to be about 70 pages of information if the book was not over-sized), the only thing I want to apply is a cold compress to my aching head and some icy-hot to my sore shoulders.

Myers also inexplicably interrupts the concepts of Prejudice, Aggression, and Helping with a chapter on Attraction and Liking. I would put Attraction and Liking before the chapter on Persuasion, but what do I know? I'm just an undergrad.

Myers literally strings together four or five research studies in a paragraph, which itself might not be so problematic if I didn't then also have a professor who felt the need to randomly select any of the hundreds of cited studies as fair game on his tests. If there are more than two names in a set of parentheses, I have skipped over the whole group of names. If there are a series of parenthetical pairs containing multiple names, I have forgotten what the paragraph was about. But then, that's the APA style, isn't it?

Regardless of my professor's issues, I feel like Myers just wanted to make sure he didn't slight anyone. I'm guessing the world of Social Psychology isn't huge and leaving someone out could mean political turmoil within the discipline (thus lists and lists of names in parentheses). But, that shouldn't have to be my problem as a student. Give me the info I need, and pick one or two representative studies that illustrate why that theory was reinforced or debunked. I don't need the names of every researcher who ever thought about the topic. Seriously, do you think I remember even half of those names? Not helpful.

I did like the index. The glossary is mixed in to the index instead of being a separate section. There is also a comprehensive list of the names of cited researches which is, of course, exhaustive.

This textbook was so boring it makes the baby Jesus cry.

The CD-ROM was useless. I was hoping for some concept-checks and practice tests, but instead it just contains audio and/or video of interviews with researchers that are already verbatim in insets in the textbook (again, more of Myers academic star-f***ing I think). There was some helpful info on the website that is listed on the back of the textbook, however. That is where the chapter summaries and practice tests are. I highly recommend the web site as a study aid.

Also, the Study Guide that accompanies the textbook (if you bought it as a package) is helpful.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a text book this one is well written and almost entertaining to read. Psychology is a fascinating subject and when you study things about human tendency, it makes you realize just how much you fall in that category. The book has large margins with vocabulary definitions next to where the word is used in the text, lots of pictures and captions to illustrate the point, and plenty of comics to read. It is a readable text book, if you're into that sort of reading... I would reccommend Myers to any Psych student.

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned a lot reading this book and the information was quite good. The writing wasn't too dense either, so I didn't have to read everything twice. But my God, some of the chapters felt long. I admit I skimmed the last few.

Now for my little rant. There are so many editions of this book. I have the feeling they make a small update every few years just so we can't check them out from the library, and these things cost more than a hundred dollars. It's a bit despicable, especially since college is already so expensive.

Anyway, don't worry about getting the newest edition. I had no issue with a slightly older copy from my school's library. The book's still recent enough that all the information is accurate.

[V · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel like the textbook is biased towards Christianity, which is not surprising, for the main author of this textbook has written a few books about Christianity. In addition, the author paints Mother Theresa as this grandiose, altruistic individual, which is a fatuous thing to believe; as she is a petty, malevolent, immoral charlatan.
Apart from that, it is a well structured textbook

[Briana Auclair · Rating 4 out of 5]

As far as textbooks go, this one was engaging. While things could seem repetitive for those in the psychology field, I understand the authors were attempting to present the material in multiple ways for maximum understanding. It was well written and I would recommend this book to instructors looking for course text- as a student it gets my thumbs up!

[Hanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Граммотно написанный учебник, охватывающий очень много аспектов нашего мышления. Причем материал изложен не просто как данное, но автор помогает читателю самому сформулировать теории, на тему которых потом приводит результаты исследованй. Много разных примеров, замечаний из жизни, отрывков. Но все вместе не выглядит сумбурно, читалось легко. Жаль таких учебников нет в школе, а стоило бы.

[Melvin Marsh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Textbook, decently written. Certainly better than the "reader" I read. Unfortunately, I do not feel that it represented the material on the Psych GRE well, even the social section which is the reason I read it.

[Sy. C · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most readable, educational and enjoyable textbooks I possess. If you're interested in understanding psychology, this is a great introductory read (the version I own is the 11th international edition).

[Florencia Salvio · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great study book for those interested about Social Psychology.
I learned a lot from it, and now I understand more about human behavior and how to be more empathic and see the world from other people point of view.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clear information, well organized with anecdotes, photos and other examples to help illustrate the concepts.

[S.G. Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great insight and understanding of behavior*

[Angelica Reyes · Rating 5 out of 5]

the book is accessible, engaging and stimulating. These qualities are needed for students like us!!!!!

[Vasundhara · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a good book

[Tian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would like to thank this book, for that it casts light on who I was, who I am, and who I want to be.