Prosocial Behaviour (Social Psychology: A Modular Course)

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Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. View or edit your browsing history. Get to Know Us. The modules are written with no prescribed order, so reorganizing chapters will not disrupt the flow of information.

Since I like to have student groups teach chapter sections as part of their term project, this will be very helpful in providing them many options to choose from. Since each chapter is written by an expert on the topic, some of them may seem overly self-referential. However they are arguably justifiable self-references, and at least it is not one author self-citing in every chapter.

For example, McAdams, a leading researcher on narrative identity, writes mainly about his theory of narrative identity development in the chapter on the Self and Identity, citing seven of his own works. While narrative identity is certainly a helpful theory for our students to learn, he barely even nods toward any other significant research on topics like self-perception theory, self-judgment, self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-enhancement, and the self-reference effect all topics covered in the chapter on the self that my current textbook includes. Since this is the only unit on the self in this collection , important findings in this area, covering these terms, as well as research on our ability to understand and predict our own behavior are not covered.

However, there are modules in Noba Psychology on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation, and more, if an instructor decides those are important to add in. The modules chosen for this textbook are organized in a logical, clear fashion see table of contents. Again, an instructor can switch modules and reorganize them if desired.

Chapters can be read online or downloaded as. Online, each chapter has an interactive table of contents TOC , learning objectives, a list of links to interesting outside resources occasionally with imbedded videos , discussion questions, and a glossary of terms. All of these are pedagogically useful for instructors and students. However, the second level of headings within the text content is not interactive, so clicking on the TOC only works for the supplementary resources, not sections of the chapter.

Using a search function online or in the pdf makes up for that. Downloaded files pdf do not have an interactive TOC. Clicking vocabulary terms takes you to the glossary, though you have to scroll back up to find your place again afterward. On either the online or downloaded version, the formatting is clean, attractive, and easy to read and navigate. Social psychology, despite starting out as Western-biased as the rest of psychology, has generally led the field in terms of inclusion and attention to culture.

This collection includes a chapter on culture, a chapter on culture and emotion, and a chapter on prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping. You can also find references to culture and national comparisons on concepts in other chapters. I was surprised by the level of support offered with this open textbook.

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Social psychology is a wide ranging topic and the book covers the broad 5 categories of the sub-discipline. Virtually all of the topics that I expected to be there featured at some point in the textbook, although there was a lack of content Virtually all of the topics that I expected to be there featured at some point in the textbook, although there was a lack of content regarding crowd behaviour and intergroup conflict. Learning objectives are included at start of every chapter, glossary, discussion questions, web resources and references.

I liked the focus on real-world applications interspersed with research examples, although at times felt that there were missed opportunities for the latter and a lack of applied chapters. I found the web resources really useful and interesting but needs to be more text to relate these to chapter content and relevance. Emotional contagion and social manipulation on Facebook are mentioned as an outside resource but references to these are absent in text.

Although there are attempts to discuss the impact of technological advances on the field, more on technology and the impact on social psychology as a field could have been included. In general, I found the content to be accurate, error-free and unbiased. Cross cultural research is featured but more so in some chapters than others. This paper argues that there is a lack of evidence regarding the presence of 38 witnesses or that they remained inactive.

This is a very important example of how key material presented in textbook has biased the discipline of social psychology.

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Reference to classic studies is effectively interspersed with more up-to-date material. There is reference to classic studies revisited and updated material e. Triplett and Stroebe Recent discussion on the so-called replicability crisis in social psychology is included in Ch 2 but this is somewhat sparse. Necessary updates will be relatively easy to and straightforward to implement. However more could have been made of the importance of technological developments on social psychology research and the future of the field.

The book begins with a discussion on the influence of smartphones on our behaviour and relationships and ends with a reference to the importance of social media relationships in modern times. The use of big data in Ch. I felt that in Ch. There is now an abundance of research articles on social psychology and Facebook and recent debates regarding e. There is a consistent structure in terms of the features of the text, the learning objectives, chapter prose, discussion questions, glossary, web resources and references but there is inconsistency and overlap in terms of content.

There is some attempt at cross-referencing to other NOBA modules but cross-referencing to specific content in other chapters is absent. For example, references to Culture of Honor studies by Cohen et al. Because of the modular nature of the textbook, there is a lot of repetition throughout in terms of theoretical concepts yet very little cross-referencing.

Chapters are varied in terms of style and quality, although generally of a high standard throughout. Some chapters are written by those well-known in their fields e. Burger, Buss , which adds to the credibility of the textbook. Modularity is both a pro and a con of the textbook, as in my previous point. That said, I did enjoy reading the text as a whole. The text lacks a logical and clear structure due to the modular nature of the textbook and the multiple authors, along with the lack of cross-referencing throughout.

The vocabulary list is useful but clicking on links just take you to the page rather than the specific word. Would be more useful if could hover over the word to get the definition if possible. This would not interrupt the flow as I had to scroll back to the point at which I was reading. Due to the modular nature of the text there is a lot of repetition in the text regarding concepts and definitions as glossaries appear at the end of each chapter instead of one vocabulary list at the end of the textbook.

There were a few examples of text appearing in a different size but there were no significant issues. The text is generally very well-written and free from grammatical errors. Some errors regarding referencing style, e. I did not find the text culturally insensitive or offensive in any way.

There were some good examples from across cultures. As previously mentioned, it is biased towards North American research and publications and key European and British studies on e. There is also a lack of critical social psychology and qualitative social psychological research. Overall, I found this textbook to be very readable and accessible. I enjoyed reading the material and at times found it up-to-date and relevant to social psychology in the 21st century, although improvements could be made to make it more relevant to today's students and in terms of real world application and critical social psychology.

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Unfortunately, the key area of intergroup relations and intergroup conflict receives extremely short shrift; the closest coverage is a single module on stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. A stand-alone combined glossary is provided at the end, as well as a helpful module-specific glossary at the end of each module. With that said, social psychology is in flux and there are some questions about the replicability of studies that are reviewed herein.

I urge instructors who may want to adopt this book to be proactive in providing commentary to their students as this situation develops. See also my comments on international bias, below. NOBA as a whole has shown itself able to capture trajectories in the field better than most traditional textbooks do.


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It is also helpful that the modules are written by some of the most central figures in the research they are describing e. The same elements are included in each module e. With that said, each module was written by a different author s and there are points of disconcerting overlap. The modules may provide similar coverage yet not be in productive conversation with each other.

I think it would be possible for an instructor to turn this into a useful feature of the textbook by creating assignments where students engage more actively with the material by, for example, contrasting the coverage of attachment theory, cultural relativism, etc. The book is designed intentionally to prioritize modularity, and this ends up being both a bug and a feature see above and below. The book is organized somewhat arbitrarily, with disparate topics loosely grouped under slightly more abstract topical headings and no segues between these groupings.

Or perhaps the organization is not as arbitrary as it seems, but there is nothing like an introduction to explain the logic of the sequence we are provided. However, I do not think it works well as a primary text for a social psychology course that relies heavily on the text to provide internal coherence, synthesis, overarching questions and frameworks, etc.

The interface is easy to use. Useful ancillary materials are provided both in the modules — though the depth of these varies considerably across modules -- and password-protected elsewhere online. Although not insensitive as a rule I did see one instance of the word "lame" used as an insult , the book is extremely intrapsychic in focus; avoids any explicit coverage of qualitative research methods; and in other ways signals strongly that it takes a North-America-centric perspective. This "book" is a compilation of modules on topics some broad, some fairly specific written for the most part by researchers, often well-known ones, within those areas.

The website says the publication date is , but most of the chapters seem The website says the publication date is , but most of the chapters seem to be written earlier than that. Because the modules are often fairly specific, they cover some topics that you wouldn't necessarily see in a traditional social psychology textbook e.

The methods chapters in particular cover a more recent methods such as implicit measures and big data, and one of them at least mentions the replication crisis with priming.


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    7. On the other hand, there are also things that you'd typically see in a social psychology textbook that get left out. For example, there is no mention throughout the modules of the Elaboration Likelihood Model they introduce the idea, but not the theory per se or any discussion of the relationship between attitudes and behavior or the theories e. In the prejudice chapter, there's not much on threat or evolutionary approaches or research on ways to reduce prejudice such as contact.

    There are several modules that deal with relationships, but no mention of the Investment Model. As a final example, the cultural module mentions individualism vs. Part of the reason some of this is left out is that the modules are fairly short, and their comprehensiveness varies based on module author s. The modules provide overviews of the areas, but there is a lot of variety in the depth they go into. Some chapters have many references from a broad range of authors, whereas another has only 8 references 6 of which the module author is co-author on.

    The modules seem accurate, but not always up-to-date. There are some places where I noticed inconsistencies that may be confusing or problematic. For example, "hypothesis" is defined differently in two different methods chapters and appears twice in the overall glossary, one for each definition. One of the definitions I don't agree with, and the second I didn't think was a great definition either. As another example, the method chapter mentioned how some priming studies had been found not to replicate and why that was important, but there was no mention of these potential issues in the social cognition module when that research was discussed.

    Because the book is in modules, an instructor could easily choose to use some and not others. Most of the modules were five or more years old it seemed, but the degree to which that might matter will depend on the topic covered in the module. There weren't many current event examples in the modules, so there wasn't much to go out-of-date there e. Overall the modules were easy to read, although this differed somewhat by module, as they were written by different authors. I thought some parts of the statistics chapter in particular would be difficult for some undergraduates.