Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies

Revisiting the Classic Studies

by Joanne R. Smith (editor), S. Alexander Haslam (Editor)

Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 15 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Asch, Festinger, Milgram, Sherif, Tajfel, and Zimbardo to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired.

Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement, both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution.

Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted.

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Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, School

296 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 2012

Reviews

[Iselin]

I've read all the studies I needed to read in this book for class now, so marking it as read for that reason. Interesting introductions to some important studies, easy to read and always short and to the point which I appreciate because so much of academia is unnecessarily difficult.

[iwi · Rating 5 out of 5]

<3 true love

[Kris Dunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic review of a handful of classic studies alongside of a (perhaps overly brief) update of the current state of the literature. The authors also do a great job detailing some of the issues with the classic studies and how they have been addressed (often by the authors) over the years. Very well written and should be a great intro for new social psych students (and perhaps even more developed social psych students who - for whatever reason - may not be entirely familiar with these studies).