The Social Animal
By:
Elliot Aronson
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Description:
A landmark text that maintains its relevance and unique approach edition after edition, The Social Animal offers a brief, compelling introduction to modern social psychology. Through vivid narrative, lively presentations of important research, and intriguing examples, Elliot Aronson probes the patterns and motives of human behavior, covering such diverse topics as terrorism, conformity, obedience, politics, race relations, advertising, war, interpersonal attraction, and the power of religious cults.
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Customer Review: 4 out of 5
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Customer Review: 5 out of 5
This book rules! - Easy to read and comprehend, not overly difficult to grasp the concepts being covered either. This book is well written and informative.
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Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Great book - This was a great text book and was very easy to read and use for class.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Social Psych - I am finding The Social Animal to be quite interesting. It seems to cover the relevent information thoroughly, and yet fails to be boring in doing so. Aronson is,of course, the father of social psychology, and that alone would make this a must read for anyone interested in the subject, but Aronson also makes the subject fun as well as educational.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Read it or Weep - This is one of those books that you only come across by chance. I became aware of this book by snooping around a friends office and saw it on the shelf with ruffled pages and post it notes sticking out of it. At first I couldn't tell if it was a bible or not, but it seems it was my friends bible.
After memorizing the title, which I did forget, and searching all over the internet for it, I finally found it. I guess I was too embarrassed to ask my friend, because I don't think he would like the idea of my snooping around.
After reading a few pages I came to realize what the big deal was with my friend. This book covers many theories behind people's less than intuitive behavior. He explains how rewarding children for undesirable behavior will lead to less of that bahavior. For example, if you want children to play with a boring toy, just leave it in a room of other more attractive toys, but demand that the children play with the more attractive toys and even give the children some candy or some money to play with these toys and eventually these children will gravitate toward the boring toy. It doen't make sense on the surface, but when you read that these behaviors are backed by a lot of research and explained theory you will start to see how it makes sense.
There are tons of examples in this book all backed by research and with clear explanations.
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