Social Psychology: Exploring the Dynamics of Human Experience

Author: Robin R. VallacherPublisher: RoutledgePaperback:ISBN 10: 0815382901ISBN 13: 978-0815382904Hardcover:ISBN 10: 0815382898ISBN 13: 978-0815382898This textbook provides a thorough insight into the discipline of social psychology, creating an integrative and cumulative framework to present students with a rich and engaging account of the human social experience.From a person’s momentary impulses to a society’s values and norms, the diversity of social psychology makes for a fascinating discipline, but it also presents a formidable challenge for presentation in a manner that is coherent and cumulative rather than fragmented and disordered. Using an accessible and readable style, the author shows how the field’s dizzying and highly fragmented array of topics, models, theories, and paradigms can best be understood through a coherent conceptual narrative in which topics are presented in careful sequence, with each chapter building on what has already been learned while providing the gro