The running theme of "The Self" gives students a context for exploring theories and applications and helps them see the relationship between all of the sub-topics in social psychology.
Extensive coverage of cross-cultural, multicultural, gender, and sexual diversity is fully integrated into the text through the examination of people from different countries around the globe and different ethnic groups within our own culture.
The text highlights the analysis of evolutionary and sociocultural forces, promoting both debate and recognition of common ground between these two perspectives and encouraging students to develop critical thinking skills through the examination of current controversies.
Featured Study sections at the end of every chapter summarize the purpose, method, and results of a recently published scientific article that is relevant to the chapter content. These studies are presented in the general format and style of a journal article, although they are much shorter and do not contain the statistical analyses.
Applications at the end of Chapters 3-14 demonstrate how the theories and research in a particular area of social psychology can be applied to real-world settings and to students' lives.
Critical Thinking questions in the margins of the text encourage students to examine their own social surroundings in the context of social psychological theories and research. Many of these questions invite students to guess a study's hypotheses, results, or alternative interpretation of findings. Possible answers to the marginal questions appear in an appendix at the end of the book.
Careers in Social Psychology appendix shows students the range of careers available to a social psychology major.
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