Social Psychology

David Meyers (Sydney, Australia) is Vice President of Engineering for Dilithium Networks. He has worked for many years within British Telecoms R&D Division and served as Broadband Delivery Manager for BTopenworld, the largest broadband provider in the UK. He is a part-time lecturer at Sydney University and serves as a broadband technical expert to the European Commission. As Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, Jean M. Twenge has authored more than 120 scientific publications on generational differences, cultural change, social rejection, gender roles, self-esteem, and narcissism. Her research has been covered in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and National Public Radio.She summarized this research for a broader audience in the books Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled- and More Miserable Than Ever Before and The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (co-authored with W. Keith Campbell). She has written for general audiences on several websites and magazines, including a piece for The Atlantic that was nominated for a National Magazine Award. She frequently gives talks and seminars on generational differences to audiences such as college faculty and staff, military personnel, camp directors, and corporate executives. Dr. Twenge grew up in Minnesota and Texas. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in social psychology at Case Western Reserve University. She lives in San Diego with her husband and three daughters.

• Chapter 1 Introducing Social PsychologyPart One Social ThinkingChapter 2 The Self in a Social WorldChapter 3 Social Beliefs and JudgmentsChapter 4 Behavior and AttitudesPart Two Social InfluenceChapter 5 Genes, Culture, and GenderChapter 6 Conformity and ObedienceChapter 7 PersuasionChapter 8 Group InfluencePart Three Social RelationsChapter 9 PrejudiceChapter 10 AggressionChapter 11 Attraction and IntimacyChapter 12 HelpingChapter 13 Conflict and PeacemakingPart Four Applying Social PsychologyChapter 14 Social Psychology in the ClinicChapter 15 Social Psychology in CourtChapter 16 Social Psychology and the Sustainable Future