Social Psychology [Hardcover]

David G. Myers (davidmyers.org) is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan's Hope College, where students have voted him "Outstanding Professor"." Also an award-winning researcher, Myers received the Gordon Allport Prize from Division 9 of the American Psychological Association for his work on group polarization.
His scientific articles have appeared in three dozen journals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. He has served his discipline as consulting editor to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In his spare time, he has chaired his city’s Human Relations Commission, helped found a community action agency that assists impoverished families, has spoken to hundreds of collegiate and religious groups, and became an advocate for an assistive listening technology that serves fellow people with hearing loss (hearingloop.org).

STEVEN J. SPENCER is a Professor and chair of the Social Psychology division at the University of Waterloo. He teaches popular classes in Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, and Social Cognition; and he is known for his lively lectures and engaging classroom demonstrations.

Dr. Spencer also maintains an active research program that investigates self-image maintenance processes, motivated social perception, stereotyping, and social norms. In particular, he has examined how threat to the self-concept can lead people to stereotype others and how being stereotyped by others can threaten people and undermine their performance on academic tasks. His work has been published in Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. He has served his discipline as a consulting editor to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and as an associate editor to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

CHRISTIAN H. JORDAN is an Associate Professor and graduate area coordinator of the Social Psychology division at Wilfrid Laurier University. He teaches lecture courses and seminars in Social Psychology and Research Methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr. Jordan is also an active researcher, studying implicit self-esteem and implicit attitudes—self-esteem and attitudes that come to mind spontaneously, like intuitions or gut feelings, but which may contradict our more reasoned evaluations of ourselves and the world. His work has been published in a number of scholarly handbooks and journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Self and Identity, and the Social and Personality Psychology Compass. He has also written popular instructional pieces on how to effectively read journal articles and how to conduct and report persuasive psychology experiments.