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Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction (4th Edition) (MyPsychLab Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Douglas T. Kenrick, Steven L. Neuberg, Robert B. Cialdini
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Category: Book
List Price: $124.67
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 11178
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Pages: 672
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 8.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0205493955
Dewey Decimal Number: 302
EAN: 9780205493951
ASIN: 0205493955
Publication Date: December 10, 2006
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Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction explores how social behavior is goal-directed and a result of interactions between the person and the situation. In addition to an overhauled design in the 4e, Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction has two elements that continue to set it apart from other social psychology textbooks. A unique integrated approach to social behavior: Rather than providing a laundry list of unconnected facts and theories, the authors organize each chapter around the two broad questions: (1) what are the goals that underlie the behavior in question? (2) what factors in the person and the situation connect to each goal? The book thus presents the discipline as a coherent framework for understanding human behavior. The new subtitle, “Goals in Interaction” underscores this integrated approach to understanding behavior. Opening mysteries: Each chapter begins with a mystery of social behavior, designed not only to grab student interest, but also to organize the ensuing discussion of scientific research: Why would a poor black washerwoman give away her hard-earned life-savings? What psychological forces led the Dalai Lama, the most exalted personage in Tibet, to forge a lifelong friendship with a foreign vagabond openly scorned by Tibetan peasants? Why would a boy falsely confess to murdering his own mother?
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 Happy w/ material covered. May 6, 2006
Benjamin Pedraza
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
After reading a few of the reviews I found it extremely interesting that every one of them gave their opinion about what the book should have been. I have a comment, "It has already been written and there's not much that can be done other than publishing a new edition. I feel that since the scope of social psychology is extremely broad, just pinning it down is a challenge. At this point, you might be woundering why I hold such perspective. As a future reasearcher, I feel that people don't realize how much work it takes to put reasearch toghter. If this people that wrote their reviews even got a little taste of what it takes to put toghter all this work, they would realize that their comments are quite insignificant.
Now, as for the content of the book, I feel that it was well written because one can easily read through it, understand it and at times identify with it. It also holds large amounts of reasearch that help build a strong fundation for and non psychology majors.
I can probably give many tips as how to study with this book but I think I would deviate from the purpose and scope of the book and this review.
SO, in conclution, I found the book extremly helpful and would recomment it to anyone that wants to learn about "the fundamentals" about social psychology.
 Very detailed but lacking in one key area February 23, 2006
Dale Broadbent (Fuquay-Varina, NC United States)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Surprisingly, this book is enjoyable to read (this coming from a college student). It presents an engaging real-life story at the beginning of each chapter to cause the student to become interested in the content of the chapter that goes after the story. It weaves the stories into each chapter's content and wraps it all up at the end in thought-provoking conclusions. What drives me crazy is its index. This is a sore spot for me because many text books are lacking here. But this book is worse than some. It devotes dozens of pages (at least 35) to its crazily enormous list of references, and has 19 pages devoted to a names index. What student cares about any of this?! (Which makes one wonder who this book is really for..?) Its lonely index sulks in the corner all by itself - all 15 pages of it. I have yet to find a single word I've looked for (out of an attempt so far of perhaps 10).
The book is not searchable online so what is a student supposed to do? There is no glossary. Studying the text is therefore relegated to a linear progression from beginning of chapter to end and on to the next. Trying to correlate my class notes with the text has proven absolutely impossible. Where is any of the words in the phrase "comparison level for alternatives" found? God only knows (and the publishers, darn them.) So how then do I know what material my instructor has taken from the text and what he has given us that's NOT in the text? This is information I need to know!
 the doors of cognition ! October 21, 2002
semioden
0 out of 16 found this review helpful
this book opens the doors of cognition ; in fact , when tiing a famous person ( ie : demora , luther king , kenwrinkel ) to notions of social psychology like ( social role , influence , aggression , etc ) , it allows our memory to widen , and teach a method to learn more and more easily !
that is , build couples : idea and picture !
this book uses cognition methods and invite us to study that field !
... opening the doors of cognition ...teaches too , that very simple tools may have terrific and positive effects !
Social Psychology: Unraveling the Mystery October 12, 2002
BR (Philadelphia, Pa. United States)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
The most valuable benefits of adopting this book for my class was the unbelievable support from the publisher. A&B provided a study guide, a test bank, a huge package of transparencies, a powerpoint presentation CD...--all of this for free. I have been astonished by the sevice and free benfits I have gotten as the result of choosing this otherwise excellent book.Let's hope the competition emulates this author and publisher.
Mr. Cialdini's comments September 8, 1999
grahamw@ix.netcom.com (Redmond, Washington)
0 out of 18 found this review helpful
After reading Mr. Cialdini's comments about his book, I wondered: is he trying to employ his "scarcity principle" to influence book sales? ;)
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