Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, 3rd Edition

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University. A Harvard Ph.D., she has honorary doctorates from the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. She has just finished a third edition of Social Cognition (1984, 1991, 2008, each with Shelley Taylor) on how people make sense of each other. She has written more than 200 articles and chapters, as well as editing many books and journal special issues. Notably, as part of her effort to keep up with the field she loves, she edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Daniel Schacter and Robert Sternberg) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (5th edition, 2010, with Daniel Gilbert and Gardner Lindzey).

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Adaptive Motives For Social Situations, Via Cultures And Brains
Chapter 2 - Scientific Methods For Studying People In Interaction
Chapter 3 - Ordinary Personology: Figuring Out Why People Do What They Do
Chapter 4 - Social Cognition: Making Sense Of Others  
Chapter 5 - The Self: Social To The Core   
Chapter 6 - Attitudes And Persuasion: Changing Hearts And Minds  
Chapter 7 - Attraction: Initiating Romance, Friendship, And Other Relationships 
 Chapter 8 - Close Relationships: Passion, Interdependence, Commitment, And Intimacy
Chapter 9 - Helping: Prosocial Behavior  
Chapter 10 - Aggression: Antisocial Behavior 
Chapter 11 - Stereotyping, Prejudice, And Discrimination: Social Biases  
Chapter 12 - Small Groups: Ongoing Interactions   
Chapter 13 - Social Influence: Doing What Others Do And Say 
Chapter 14 - Conclusion: Social Beings

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