Table of Contents

1. What Is Social Psychology?
2. Doing Social Psychology Research.
3. The Social Self.
4. Perceiving Persons.
5. Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination.
6. Attitudes.
7. Conformity.
8. Group Processes.
9. Attraction and Close Relationships.
10. Helping Others.
11. Aggression.
12. Law.
13. Business.
14. Health.

About the Author

Saul Kassin is Professor of Psychology at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Brooklyn College. After receiving his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the University of Connecticut, he spent one year at the University of Kansas and two years at Purdue University. In 1984, he was awarded a prestigious U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship, and in 1985 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology and Law Program at Stanford University. Kassin is author of the textbook PSYCHOLOGY (now in its fourth edition) and has coauthored or edited a number of scholarly books, including DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EVIDENCE AND TRIAL PROCEDURE, and THE AMERICAN JURY ON TRIAL. His research interests are in social perception and influence, and their applications to police interrogations and confessions, eyewitness testimony, jury decision-making, and other aspects of law.