Social Psychology (Second Edition)

Social Psychology, Second Edition, is a collaborative effort by renowned authors Tom Gilovich, Dacher Keltner, and Richard E. Nisbett. The team do a phenomenal job of addressing classic content within the social psychology discipline while incorporating themes such as culture, evolution, and neuroscience. Ground-breaking areas of study including emotion, morality, and judgment are also integrated to portray a modern approach to social psychology. Applications of this discipline also included within the pages of this revolutionary text include personal finance, education, and health. Grand organizational text features such as 'You Be the Subject' activities and 'Scientific Method' figures enhance and engage student interaction while journeying through this text. Tim Gilovich's text Social Psychology, Second Edition, ISBN 9780393932584 displays this author's expertise in his field. Gilovich serves as Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He has conducted extensive research dealing with 'how people evaluate the evidence of their everyday experience to make judgments, form beliefs, and decide on courses of action, and how they sometimes misevaluate that evidence and make faulty judgments, form dubious beliefs, and embark on counterproductive courses of action.' He is also intrigued with the emotional states that can sway people's judgments as well as the results that follow. Along with this current text, Gilovich has taken part in authoring several other books including How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life, and with Gary Belsky, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes—and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics. He co-edited, with Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman, Heuristic and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment.