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Social Psychology book cover
Social Psychology, 7/e
David G Myers, Hope College
Module A

Chapter Outline

Making Clinical Judgments

  1. Illusory Correlations
  2. Hindsight and Overconfidence
  3. Self-Confirming Diagnoses
  4. Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction
  5. Implications

Social Cognition in Problem Behaviors

  1. Social Cognition and Depression
    1. Distortion or Realism?
    2. Is Negative Thinking a Cause or a Result of Depression?
  2. Social Cognition and Loneliness
  3. Social Cognition and Anxiety
  4. Social Cognition and Illness
    1. Reactions to Illness
    2. Emotions and Illness
    3. Stress and Illness
    4. Explanatory Style and Illness

Social-Psychological Approaches to Treatment

  1. Inducing Internal Change Through External Behavior
  2. Breaking Vicious Cycles
    1. Social Skills Training
    2. Explanatory Style Therapy
  3. Maintaining Change Through Internal Attributions for Success

Social Support and Well-Being

  1. Close Relationships and Health
    1. Confiding and Health
    2. Poverty, Inequality, and Health
  2. Close Relationships and Happiness
    1. Friendships and Happiness
    2. Marital Attachment and Happiness

Personal Postscript: Enhancing Happiness









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