Blackwell reader in social psychology / edited by Miles Hewstone, Antony S.R. Manstead, Wolfgang Stroebe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction to a History of Social Psychology -- Contemporary social psychology in historical perspective -- 2. Evolutionary Social Psychology -- Sex differences in jealousy: Evolution, physiology, and psychology -- 3. Developmental Social Psychology -- The development of children's preference for their own country: A cross-national study -- 4. Methodology in Social Psychology: Putting Ideas to the Test -- Experimentation in social psychology: A reappraisal -- 5. Basic Concepts and Approaches in Social Cognition -- Forming impressions of personality -- A hypothesis-confirming bias in labeling effects -- 6. Processing Social Information for Judgements and Decisions -- Cognitive representation of personality impressions: Organizational processes in first impression formation -- Reconstructing the past: Some cognitive consequences of person perception -- 7. Attribution Theory: Basic Issues and Applications -- Videotape and the attribution process: Reversing actors' and observers' points of view -- Attributions and behavior in marital interaction -- 8. Attitudes: Structure, Measurement and Functions -- Empirical validation of affect, behavior, and cognition as distinct components of attitude -- Prediction of goal-directed behavior: Attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control -- 9. Principles of Attitude Formation and Strategies of Attitude Change -- Decision freedom as a determinant of the role of incentive magnitude in attitude change -- Personal involvement as a determinant of argument-based persuasion -- 10. Emotion -- Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state -- Constants across cultures in the face and emotion -- 11. Interpersonal Communication -- Secondary baby talk: Judgments by institutionalized elderly and their caregivers -- Channel consistency and inconsistency in the communication of married couples -- 12. Affiliation, Attraction and Close Relationships -- Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process -- Commitment and satisfaction in romantic associations: A test of the investment model -- 13. Prosocial Behaviour -- 'From Jerusalem to Jericho': A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior -- A lady in distress: Inhibiting effects of friends and strangers on bystander intervention -- 14. Aggressive Behaviour -- Weapons as aggression-eliciting stimuli -- Attribution of apparent arousal and proficiency of recovery from sympathetic activation affecting excitation transfer to aggressive behavior -- 15. Group Performance -- Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing -- Productivity loss is brainstorming groups: Toward the solution of a riddle -- 16. Social Influence in Groups -- Influence of a consistent minority on the responses of a majority in a color perception task -- Behavioral study of obedience -- 17. Intergroup Relations -- Intergroup discrimination and self-esteem in the minimal group paradigm -- Intergroup contact: The typical member and the exception to the rule -- 18. Applied Social Psychology -- Social support and immune function among spouses of cancer patients -- The social psychology of eyewitness accuracy: Misleading questions and communicator expertise -- Index.

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