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Appropriate for one-semester social psychology courses in colleges and universities.In this first Canadian edition, the authors have provided essential content in a Canadian context, using a relaxed, story-telling style. Fundamentals combines a scientific approach, drawing on both classic and contemporary research, with a focus on applications. Each chapter is concise and self-contained in terms of topics and concepts. Consequently, instructors can assign the chapters in any order they please; concepts are always explained in clear terms so that students won’t need to have read earlier chapters in order to grasp the meanings of later ones.Based on the highly regarded full-size Aronson text, Fundamentals has 10 streamlined chapters, (compared to 13 plus 3 separate applied chapters in the comprehensive text): Topics of social cognition and social perception have been condensed into a single chapter, “Social Cognition and Social Perception: The Social World and How We Understand Other People” (Chapter 3). Examination of self is now presented in a single chapter, “Self-Knowledge and Self-Justification” (Chapter 4). Chapter 9, “Prosocial Behaviour and Aggression: Why People Help and Hurt One Another,” combines coverage of these two sides of human behaviour.
