Applied Social Psychology: Understanding and Addressing Social and Practical Problems is an excellent introductory textbook that helps students understand how people think about, feel about, relate to, and influence one another. The book is unique in that it provides a balanced emphasis on social psychological theory and research. Editors Frank W. Schneider, Jamie A. Gruman, and Larry M. Coutts examine the contributions of social and practical problems in several areas including everyday life, clinical psychology, sports, the media, health, education, organizations, community psychology, the environment, and human diversity.
Offering a balance of theory, research, and application, the updated Third Edition includes the latest research, as well as new, detailed examples of qualitative research throughout.
This is an essential volume for all undergraduate and graduate students studying applied social psychology.
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intergroup comparisons but also develop diverse, culturally-based approaches to a range of social psychological issues. Chapter 1 presents a social cognition perspective on cross-cultural research and acculturation as a central concept ...
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The two major features of health psychology - psychosocial mediators of health status and health promotion programmes - are addressed in this volume. Focusing on social, cognitive and contextual factors...
Likewise, an empirical-analytic social psychology has been able to develop within a social structure that has established normative goals against which its principles of technical control can be assessed. Although it is possible for ...
The five chapters of this book contain carefully selected essays that approach both academic issues and empiric research results covering a wide range of interests.
First Published in 1983. This volume is the second in a series of volumes on applied social psychology. The contents of the contributions represent the richly diverse approaches and settings in which social psychology is being used.