• ISBN13: 9781464178726
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Macmillan Learning
• Publisher Imprint: Worth Pub
• Publication Date: April 16, 2019
• Pages: 512
• Original Price: GBP 76.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 612 grams

About the Book Exploring the key ideas in social psychology, this collection of classic and contemporary readings includes accounts of specific experimental findings as well as more general articles summarizing studies on such topics as attraction, prejudice, and aggression. <br>The new edition adds 15 new readings while retaining a number of classics by leading psychological thinkers such as Stanley Milgram on obedience and Solomon Asch on conformity.<br>Readings makes the perfect companion for the Aronson's highly praised book, The Social Animal as it follows the same major themes. The Reader can also be used with any introductory social psychology text or even in lieu of a text. Using both The Social Animal textbook and the reader is a unique and engaging combination for understanding social psychology and its research. About the Author Elliot Aronson</b> is one of the most eminent and versatile psychologists of our time. He is the only person in the 120 year history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its major awards: Distinguished Researcher (1999), Distinguished Teaching (1980), and Distinguished Writing (1975).<br> Joshua Aronson</b> is associate professor of developmental, social, and educational psychology, at New York University. He is best known for his pioneering research on stereotype threat, research that has been cited in three Supreme Court cases and has been among the most widely cited research programs in psychology and education.