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Social Psychology, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (November 2, 2021) © 2022

  • Michael A. Hogg Claremont Graduate University
  • Graham M. Vaughan University of Auckland

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  • Updated coverage of the social identity perspective on health attitudes and behaviour, focusing on depression and COVID-19-related social isolation.
  • Updated and reconfigured coverage of group cohesiveness.
  • Updated discussion of leadership – specifically, coverage of the social identity theory of leadership, research on gender and minorities and leadership, and the 'glass cliff'.
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Preface

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Guided tour

  1. Introducing social psychology
  2. Social cognition and social thinking
  3. Attribution and social explanation
  4. Self and identity
  5. Attitudes
  6. Persuasion and attitude change
  7. Social influence
  8. People in groups
  9. Leadership and group decision-making
  10. Prejudice and discrimination
  11. Intergroup behaviour
  12. Aggression
  13. Prosocial behaviour
  14. Attraction and close relationships
  15. Language and communication
  16. Culture

Glossary

Michael Hogg received his BSc from the University of Birmingham and his PhD from the University of Bristol and is currently Professor of Social Psychology and Chair of the Social Psychology Program at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, and an Honorary Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent. A former President of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, he has also been a Professor at Bristol University, Princeton University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland, and a Visiting Fellow at SapienzaUniversità di Roma.

Graham Vaughan, a former Professor of Psychology and Chair of Department at the University of Auckland, has been a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Visiting Lecturer and Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of Bristol, a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, a Visiting Directeur d'Etudes at the Maison des Science de l'Homme, Paris, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland and a Visiting Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge.

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