Social Psychology, Third Canadian Edition, the market-leading textbook in Social Psychology, will build on the success of the Second Canadian Edition by updating and clarifying current content and adding features to heighten the relevance of the material for today’s Canadian students and instructors. The text's structure in three parts-Social Thinking, Social Influence, Social Relations-helps users to organize and apply core social psychological concepts, themes, and issues, and the modular section at the end of the text guides readers through an investigation of how social psychology functions in the real world. In a true co-author partnership, American author David Myers and Canadian author Steven Spencer work closely together, with the result being a more tightly integrated, well-presented, and highly readable edition of this respected text.
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David Myers is the John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Michigan's Hope College, where students have voted him “Outstanding Professor." Myers's love for teaching psychology is manifest in his writings for the lay public. His articles have appeared in two dozen magazines and he has authored or co-authored a dozen books, including The Pursuit of Happiness (Avon, 1993) and Intuition: Its Powers and Perils (Yale University Press, 2002). 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 more than two dozen journals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and The 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, and spoken to dozens of collegiate and religious groups. David and Carol Myers are the parents of two sons and a daughter.
Steven J. Spencer is an assistant professor and chair of the social psychology division at the University of Waterloo. He teaches popular classes in Social Psychology and Social Cognition and 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, and stereotyping. In particular, he has examined how threats 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 the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. In his spare time he plays on an intramural basketball team organized by the graduate students in social psychology at the University of Waterloo, and enjoys spending time with his family. Steven and Shelley Spencer are parents of two children, a daughter and a son.
Steven J. Spencer is an assistant professor and chair of the social psychology division at the University of Waterloo. He teaches popular classes in Social Psychology and Social Cognition and 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, and stereotyping. In particular, he has examined how threats 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 the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. In his spare time he plays on an intramural basketball team organized by the graduate students in social psychology at the University of Waterloo, and enjoys spending time with his family. Steven and Shelley Spencer are parents of two children, a daughter and a son.
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By A. Ng
This is the first time that I'm writing a review and I just had to because this was my object of hate throughout my social psychology class (I'm a Psyc major and I got an A- in the class, so no, I'm not bitter :P)
The authors are unorganized and unclear in their explanations of theory and phenomenon. I was particularly annoyed at their chapter on Aggression -- there was no psychological theory at all. The chapter was just a compilation of statistical findings on how tv and aggression are correlated in today's youth. I only read the book merely because its material was to be tested on the exams.
Another point of annoyance is their attempt at writing dramatically in short and concise sentences (especially when some things just ARE obvious in social psyc) Many times I would bang my forehead against the book because of this.
I'm a decent reader and I'm not the only one that has this opinion; I've asked others in the same class using this same textbook and they all agreed that even the most basic of theories (or even paragraph) had to be re-read to get out some kind of logical argument.
A typical paragraph outline would be something like this,
"Theory A. It isn't. [citation]. But what did we say before? Theory B? [citation]. It isn't that either. [citation].
Well the answer is....it DEPENDS!"
In short, the writing is ineffective, illogical and annoying to read. Social psychology readings should be fun or perhaps fascinating -- this definitely was neither.
The authors are unorganized and unclear in their explanations of theory and phenomenon. I was particularly annoyed at their chapter on Aggression -- there was no psychological theory at all. The chapter was just a compilation of statistical findings on how tv and aggression are correlated in today's youth. I only read the book merely because its material was to be tested on the exams.
Another point of annoyance is their attempt at writing dramatically in short and concise sentences (especially when some things just ARE obvious in social psyc) Many times I would bang my forehead against the book because of this.
I'm a decent reader and I'm not the only one that has this opinion; I've asked others in the same class using this same textbook and they all agreed that even the most basic of theories (or even paragraph) had to be re-read to get out some kind of logical argument.
A typical paragraph outline would be something like this,
"Theory A. It isn't. [citation]. But what did we say before? Theory B? [citation]. It isn't that either. [citation].
Well the answer is....it DEPENDS!"
In short, the writing is ineffective, illogical and annoying to read. Social psychology readings should be fun or perhaps fascinating -- this definitely was neither.
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