Abstract 'David Myers’ bestselling Psychology has reached a wider audience of students and instructors with each new edition. Myers and his team lead the field in being attuned toPsychology’s research and the needs of the instructors and students in the course today. Ten million student class testers and thousands of adopting instructors can attest to the quality of this project. True to form, this landmark new Tenth Edition is another vigorous, deeply considered revision.' - Summary from publisher.
Textbooks Textbooks by David G. Myers Introductory psychology texts and teaching supplements: (To meet the people who bring you these books,.) Psychology 12th Edition Psychology in Modules 12th Edition Myers' Psychology for AP.
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2nd Edition Exploring Psychology 10th Edition Exploring Psychology in Modules 10th Edition Psychology in Everyday Life 4th Edition Social Psychology texts and teaching supplements: Social Psychology 12th Edition Social Psychology 6th Canadian Edition with Steven Spencer Exploring Social Psychology 7th Edition Exploring Social Psychology 4th Canadian Edition with Steven Spencer copyright 2007, David G. Myers, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, USA.
David Myers' Social Psychology continues to set the standard by which other Social Psychology texts are judged. Its renowned authors engaging writing style and unique, intimate voice make the text compelling without being simplistic.
The organization logically moves the student through the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another, with an appropriate balance of basic research and application. This edition features additional contemporary research, supplemented by video clips and vignettes that demonstrate social psychology's relevance. About the Author.
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Myers is the John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Michigan's Hope College, where students have voted him 'Outstanding Professor.' Myers' love of teaching psychology is manifest in his writings for the lay public. His articles have appeared in two-dozen magazines and he has authored or co-authored ten books, including The Pursuit of Happiness (Avon, 1993) and The American Paradox (Yale University Press, 2000).Also an award-winning researcher, Myers received the Gordon Allport Prize from Division 9 of the American Psychological Association for his work on group polarization. His scientific articles have appeared in more than two-dozen journals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and the American Psychologist. He has served his discipline as consulting editor to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.In his spare time he has chaired his city's Human Relations Commission, helped found a community action agency which assists impoverished families, and spoken to dozens of collegiate and religious groups. David and Carol Myers are parents of two sons and a daughter.
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I wish this kind of intelligent, wide-ranging (800pp) and eye-opening textbook had been around when I was studying business some 35 years ago. I would have devoted more time since then to following the developments of psychology, instead of just deducting from the ineptitude of what was taught to us that it was all just a waste of time. But then, I suppose psychology has changed a lot since 1980, with charlatanistic mumbo-jumbo being gradually replaced with a corpus of nearly scientific result I wish this kind of intelligent, wide-ranging (800pp) and eye-opening textbook had been around when I was studying business some 35 years ago.
I would have devoted more time since then to following the developments of psychology, instead of just deducting from the ineptitude of what was taught to us that it was all just a waste of time. But then, I suppose psychology has changed a lot since 1980, with charlatanistic mumbo-jumbo being gradually replaced with a corpus of nearly scientific results. Anyway, it is a pleasure to catch up in this opus.
The main fault of this book is that it seems to consider nearly all published psychology results as trustworthy, although psychological research is notoriously oversold see: Fanelli & Ioannidis - US studies may overestimate effect sizes in softer research - PNAS, August 2013 and mostly based on experiments on small, non-significative numbers of a population itself non-significative, US undergraduates. see: Henrich, Heine & Norenzayan - The Weirdest people in the world? - 2009 What this book thus lacks, and needs, is a rigorous screening between what is well established and what is not.
I have very little to say in criticism to this book. I really enjoyed the layout and the structure of the material. There's only a single thing I want to point out.
Some of the evolutionary proposals in this book are highly dubious. It seemed to me that the evolutionary structure assumed in this book was an old 80s view that involves game-centered and gene-centered approaches. This view has largely been done away with and a pluralistic view has been adopted. Natural selection is no longer the ne I have very little to say in criticism to this book. I really enjoyed the layout and the structure of the material. There's only a single thing I want to point out. Some of the evolutionary proposals in this book are highly dubious.
It seemed to me that the evolutionary structure assumed in this book was an old 80s view that involves game-centered and gene-centered approaches. This view has largely been done away with and a pluralistic view has been adopted. Natural selection is no longer the necessary center of evolutionary theory. Also, traits aren't assumed to be adaptive. It's considered null at the outset. In evolutionary psychology, we can look at traits and work our way back to wondering 'why?' And we can offer evolutionary explanations.
We can conjure up reasons of to how some trait could assist in survival or reproduction. However, this isn't sufficient for proof and it's not scientific.
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We can offer sociocultural explanations just as easily as evolutionary ones. That being said, evolutionary explanations in psychology aren't entirely without merit; however; I'm suggesting to take them with a grain of salt. In philosophy of biology, when we just slap some possible evolutionarily.adaptive. explanation onto things, this is along the lines of 'explanatory adaptationism,' which is more aesthetic-based than scientific. Moreover, adaptationism is no longer, as mentioned, central. A pluralistic view has been adopted. So, I'm really suggesting that there may be a disconnect between the psychologists and the biologists/philosophers of biology insofar as evolutionary ideals go.
For a text book this one is well written and almost entertaining to read. Psychology is a fascinating subject and when you study things about human tendency, it makes you realize just how much you fall in that category. The book has large margins with vocabulary definitions next to where the word is used in the text, lots of pictures and captions to illustrate the point, and plenty of comics to read. It is a readable text book, if you're into that sort of reading. I would reccommend Myers to a For a text book this one is well written and almost entertaining to read. Psychology is a fascinating subject and when you study things about human tendency, it makes you realize just how much you fall in that category. The book has large margins with vocabulary definitions next to where the word is used in the text, lots of pictures and captions to illustrate the point, and plenty of comics to read.
It is a readable text book, if you're into that sort of reading. I would reccommend Myers to any Psych student.
This textbook is dense. It made me feel dense. And I don't mean because the concepts are so deep. I mean that the pages are HUGE, the typeface is small, and Myers must pack seventy researcher names into every paragraph. Seriously uninteresting presentation of some very interesting concepts. The textbook is not so well organized. There is a chapter 'table of contents' at the beginning of each chapter, but each chapters ends with an 'op-ed' piece by Myers on how we as students can make the Oy vey.
This textbook is dense. It made me feel dense.
And I don't mean because the concepts are so deep. I mean that the pages are HUGE, the typeface is small, and Myers must pack seventy researcher names into every paragraph. Seriously uninteresting presentation of some very interesting concepts. The textbook is not so well organized. There is a chapter 'table of contents' at the beginning of each chapter, but each chapters ends with an 'op-ed' piece by Myers on how we as students can make the world a warm and fuzzy place if we use the concepts learned in the chapter. A nice gesture, but after reading 40 pages (of what turns out to be about 70 pages of information if the book was not over-sized), the only thing I want to apply is a cold compress to my aching head and some icy-hot to my sore shoulders. Myers also inexplicably interrupts the concepts of Prejudice, Aggression, and Helping with a chapter on Attraction and Liking.
I would put Attraction and Liking before the chapter on Persuasion, but what do I know? I'm just an undergrad. Myers literally strings together four or five research studies in a paragraph, which itself might not be so problematic if I didn't then also have a professor who felt the need to randomly select any of the hundreds of cited studies as fair game on his tests. If there are more than two names in a set of parentheses, I have skipped over the whole group of names. If there are a series of parenthetical pairs containing multiple names, I have forgotten what the paragraph was about.
But then, that's the APA style, isn't it? Regardless of my professor's issues, I feel like Myers just wanted to make sure he didn't slight anyone. I'm guessing the world of Social Psychology isn't huge and leaving someone out could mean political turmoil within the discipline (thus lists and lists of names in parentheses). But, that shouldn't have to be my problem as a student. Give me the info I need, and pick one or two representative studies that illustrate why that theory was reinforced or debunked. I don't need the names of every researcher who ever thought about the topic.
Seriously, do you think I remember even half of those names? I did like the index.
The glossary is mixed in to the index instead of being a separate section. There is also a comprehensive list of the names of cited researches which is, of course, exhaustive. This textbook was so boring it makes the baby Jesus cry.
The CD-ROM was useless. I was hoping for some concept-checks and practice tests, but instead it just contains audio and/or video of interviews with researchers that are already verbatim in insets in the textbook (again, more of Myers academic star-f.ing I think).
There was some helpful info on the website that is listed on the back of the textbook, however. That is where the chapter summaries and practice tests are. I highly recommend the web site as a study aid. Also, the Study Guide that accompanies the textbook (if you bought it as a package) is helpful.
I liked this book because it gives a clear meaning on someone's attitude and possible things that can be encountered. I like that you can persuade someone to change their attitude without having to do anything.Also that I can see how to identify and deal with people who have different attitudes all the time. That in most cases, behavior shapes our attitude. Especially any type of social influence. I like that people tend to 'stereotype,' someone based on the little bit of that specific person. T I liked this book because it gives a clear meaning on someone's attitude and possible things that can be encountered.
I like that you can persuade someone to change their attitude without having to do anything.Also that I can see how to identify and deal with people who have different attitudes all the time. That in most cases, behavior shapes our attitude.
Especially any type of social influence. I like that people tend to 'stereotype,' someone based on the little bit of that specific person.
That stereotyping someone can lead to a prejudice person and create a certain image and attitude towards someone. It is crazy to think that anyone can be prejudice and not even realize it because of how the brain works. How one does not realize that everyone is attracted to one person because of how we judge them. Because of how we view them and compare them to ourselves. In some ways,a person can be aggressively full of discomfort just by how they view or judge someone.
So much hate or anger will build up and later on become an instinct to act out in an aggressive or dangerous way. It becomes a strange satisfaction to the one performing the action.
This is a 'fighting instinct,' that not only humans, but animals have. Either frustration or observational learning to hurt others triggers that latch in the mind which causes one to act out in ways they did not even know was possible. In other cases, one can be very passionate and go through components to become not only emotionally attracted to this person, but physically as well.
Learning to look at the situation and have that willingness to try and help so that nothing dangerous occurs from it. I would definitely recommend this text to anyone interested in any type of interest on how people react in situations. On how everything in the mind happens without it even being aware of it. This will definitely answer any unanswered questions about social psychology.
I enjoyed this book very much. This is a quality textbook. It is a great introduction to social psychology, some facets of which, I had not even thought about.
I love how it incorporates psychology, not only from the U.S. And other western countries, but from the East and even Africa as well. Its treatment of religion really positively surprised me. It did not attempt to discount religion's positive effect on people or to overemphasize any negative effects as many textbooks do today in the west. The book seemed to present the This is a quality textbook. It is a great introduction to social psychology, some facets of which, I had not even thought about. I love how it incorporates psychology, not only from the U.S.
And other western countries, but from the East and even Africa as well. Its treatment of religion really positively surprised me. It did not attempt to discount religion's positive effect on people or to overemphasize any negative effects as many textbooks do today in the west. The book seemed to present the facts in most cases.
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The only thing I would say I really disliked was its heavy handedness when it came to global warming. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and learned a lot!
I didn't read this all the way through, but I did read through a good majority of the book. I was very impressed with the way the chapters were set up. Sometimes they were a bit lengthy, but they delved into some really interesting topics in social psychology and backed many of the things they were saying up with legitimate research studies and good data.
I might be a bit biased because I like the subject material, but I think the book read really interesting and I was not bored very often while I didn't read this all the way through, but I did read through a good majority of the book. I was very impressed with the way the chapters were set up. Sometimes they were a bit lengthy, but they delved into some really interesting topics in social psychology and backed many of the things they were saying up with legitimate research studies and good data. I might be a bit biased because I like the subject material, but I think the book read really interesting and I was not bored very often while reading it.