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This fully updated, second edition of Social Psychology features contemporary examples and addresses pressing topics such as climate change activism, digital technology, pandemics, and AI. With a new chapter on groups, this innovative book examines prejudice, aggression, conformity, persuasion, attraction, relationships, and prosocial behaviour in a bold and comprehensive way. Engaging with both classic and cutting-edge research, it critically evaluates the literature to help you develop your own critical lens. As you read this book, you will be guided by a range of chapter activities that promote deeper learning, including: Focus boxes, to highlight classic and contemporary research studies, Try It Out boxes, which contain short activities, questions or reflection prompts, Definitions boxes, to remind you of key terms and their meanings, Review questions, to check your understanding, This essential resource is a must-have for students of social psychology who want to understand the relevance of the field to today's world. Paul Dickerson is Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Roehampton, London.

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I welcome this new edition of Paul Dickerson’s Social Psychology. I particularly appreciate the coverage of contemporary issues and debates such as critical race theory, and the inclusion of a wide range of research from outside the Western world. The critical reviews of topics are excellent for enriching students’ understandings, and it’s great to see coverage of communication and interaction in a Social Psychology textbook. I’ll be recommending this book to my students. -- Mick Finlay * Market development team * What I most liked was again including the different approaches in social psychology but also its focus on developing critical evaluation from the students which seems to be embedded through the whole textbook with the critical psychologist perspective being presented and discussed. -- Dr. Sofia Petisca, FHEA, CPsychol * Market development team * Compares and contrasts different theoretical frameworks, it tackles the question of what it means to be critical from a decolonial and discursive perspective, the opening cases are wonderful, it draws the latest developments in technology and tries to unpack its intersections and implications for social psychology.  -- Stavroula Tsirogianni * Market development team *

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Paul Dickerson is Associate Professor at the University of Roehampton where he has taught for more than 25 years. His research has predominantly adopted a qualitative approach and has largely focused on issues of talk and interaction. He has previously written How to Write Brilliant Psychology Essays also published by Sage. Paul has written this book to enable you to immerse yourself in the exciting world of social psychology, to see its relevance in everyday life - as well as to support you in questioning its findings.

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