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. 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.

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.

Part I. What Is Social Psychology?

1. Social Psychology – The Science of Human Experience

Daniel M. Wegner and Daniel T. Gilbert

Part II. Social Cognition

2. Students’ Mindsets: Messages That Motivate

Carol S. Dweck

3. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious

Timothy D. Wilson

4. A Purpose for Working Hard: When Transcending the Self

Creates Self-Regulation

David S. Yeager

5. Human Autonomy: Its Basic Science and Applied

Significance

Edward Deci and Richard Ryan

6. The Mindful Social Animal

Barry R. Cohen and Joshua Aronson

Part III. Self-Justification

7. Dissonance, Hypocrisy, and the Self-Concept

Elliot Aronson

8. Self-Affirmation: Understanding the Effects

David K. Sherman and Geoffrey Cohen

9. Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgement

Kent Harber and Christian H. Williams

10. Using Cognitive Dissonance to Encourage Water Conservation

Chris Ann Dickerson, Ruth Thibodeau, Elliot Aronson, and Dayna Miller

11. Trial by Therapy: The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited

Frederick Crews

Part IV. Conformity

12. Opinions and Social Pressure

Solomon E. Asch

13. Behavioral Study of Obedience

Stanley Milgram

14. "From Jerusalem to Jericho": A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior

John M. Darley and C. Daniel Batson

15. A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels

Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini and Vladas Griskevicius

Part V. Mass Communication, Propaganda, and Persuasion

16. Attribution Versus Persuasion as a Means for Modifying Behavior

Richard L. Miller, Philip Brickman, and Diana Bolen

17. You Are What You Do: Implicating the Self to Influence Behavior

Christopher J. Bryan

18. Compliance Without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique

Jonathan L. Freedman and Scott C. Fraser

19. Work and the Art of Motivation Maintenance

Adam M. Grant

Part VI. HUMAN AGGRESSION

20. Low Glucose Relates to Greater Aggression in Married Couples

Brad J. Bushman, C. Nathan DeWall, Richard S. Pond, Jr., and Michael D. Hanus

21. Deindividuation and Anger-Mediated Interracial Aggression: Unmasking Regressive Racism

Ronald W. Rogers and Steven Prentice-Dunn

22. Does Venting Anger Feed or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding

Brad J. Bushman

23. Reducing Intergroup Prejudice and Conflict Using the Media: A Field Experiment in Rwanda

Elizabeth Levy] Paluck

Part VII. PREJUDICE 379

24. Jigsaw Groups and the Desegregated Classroom: In Pursuit of Common Goals

Elliot Aronson and Diane Bridgeman

25. Implicit Bias in Social Interactions

Kate Riley Thorson and Tessa V. West

26. Prejudice as Self-Image Maintenance: Affirming the Self Through Derogating Others

Steven Fein and Steven J. Spencer

Part VIII. LIKING, LOVING, AND INTERPERSONAL SENSITIVITY

27. Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat

James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, and Richard J. Davidson

28. The Long Reach of the Social in "Social Animal": Affiliation Motivation Is the Foundation on Which Achievement Motivation Rests

Andrew J. Elliot

29. The Social Animal Encounters Social Rejection: Cognitive, Behavioral, Emotional, and Interpersonal Effects of Being Excluded

Roy F. Baumeister and Dianne M. Tice

30. Arbitrary Social Norms Influence Sex Differences in Romantic Selectivity

Eli J. Finkel and Paul W. Eastwick

IX. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE

31. Scientific Reproducibility in the Study of Social Animals Jay Van Bavel and William A. Cunningham

32. The Replicability Issue and Stereotype Threat Research Steven J. Spencer and Claude M. Steele

33. Research in Social Psychology as a Leap of Faith

Elliot Aronson