- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US; 70th edition (1 Feb 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 007053926X
- ISBN-13: 978-0070539266
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,450,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This synthesis of the central themes of social psychology and personality theory covers the central topics of social psychology and shows how they and their messages inform the study of any topic having to do with social behaviour. Ross and Nisbett cover the latest research on individual difference in social behaviour and relate it to the everyday experience of predictability concerning the behaviour of others. The text relates questions of personality psychology to questions of social psychology, and focuses on questions which the authors consider to be outside the mainstream of social psychology.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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For those who are less than pedantic in purchasing publishing: Malcolm Gladwell is not a main author of this book. He has written the foreward and endorses the text.
This is not apparent when using the Recommendations link, where he is listed first among the authors, or on the Amazon for mobiles app.
Useful and interesting text, nonetheless: just not what I thought I was buying.
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This is not apparent when using the Recommendations link, where he is listed first among the authors, or on the Amazon for mobiles app.
Useful and interesting text, nonetheless: just not what I thought I was buying.
sasp
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a classic in social psychology. Nisbett and Ross, two prolific psychologists, argue that human behaviour is more the result of context than personality, with people often mistakenly inferring the causes of their own and other's behaviour. They highlight that laypeople (and even academic psychologists in everyday life) often ascribe personality traits to explain observed behaviour - John steals because he is dishonest and Jane volunteers at a soup kitchen because she is kind. However, as Walter Mischel first pointed out in Personality and Assessment, existing research shows that cross-situational correlations of personality traits (e.g. conscientiousness at work versus at home) are remarkably low (around .10, which is indistinguishable from no correlation). Instead, Nisbett and Ross point out in a gleefully contrarian manner that it's the situation, and the individual's interpretation of that situation, that determines behaviour.
The highlight of the book for me is that canonical psychology studies are reviewed through the lens of situationism, giving an interesting slant to Milgram's Obedience to Authority studies, Festinger's Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Latane and Darley's bystander studies, and Asch's 'conformity' experiments (I put the word in inverted commas as Nisbett and Ross correctly point out that the original experiment was as much about independence as it was about conformity, disabusing the much-repeated myth of this classic study). Anyone interested in these classics will be satisfied with the fascinating situationist re-interpretation.
This book is dense - not in the sense that it's hard to read (it could be comfortably read by interested laypeople, especially fans of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers or The Tipping Point, but I'd advise skipping the particularly intense chapter about statistics). Rather, it's dense in that it contains so many fascinating ideas for such a slim volume. One minor gripe is that for this Pinter & Martin re-issue, the writers have elected to add an epilogue rather than revise the book in line with current research. In the epilogue they all-too-briefly mention the tantalizing idea about the interaction of the person via the situation, rather than the person versus the situation, an idea I would have loved to see given more space. This review can't do justice to the sheer depth and breadth that this book covers, so I can only recommend for anyone interested in social psychology to pick up this book.
The highlight of the book for me is that canonical psychology studies are reviewed through the lens of situationism, giving an interesting slant to Milgram's Obedience to Authority studies, Festinger's Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Latane and Darley's bystander studies, and Asch's 'conformity' experiments (I put the word in inverted commas as Nisbett and Ross correctly point out that the original experiment was as much about independence as it was about conformity, disabusing the much-repeated myth of this classic study). Anyone interested in these classics will be satisfied with the fascinating situationist re-interpretation.
This book is dense - not in the sense that it's hard to read (it could be comfortably read by interested laypeople, especially fans of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers or The Tipping Point, but I'd advise skipping the particularly intense chapter about statistics). Rather, it's dense in that it contains so many fascinating ideas for such a slim volume. One minor gripe is that for this Pinter & Martin re-issue, the writers have elected to add an epilogue rather than revise the book in line with current research. In the epilogue they all-too-briefly mention the tantalizing idea about the interaction of the person via the situation, rather than the person versus the situation, an idea I would have loved to see given more space. This review can't do justice to the sheer depth and breadth that this book covers, so I can only recommend for anyone interested in social psychology to pick up this book.
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The book came more or less on time, but the order of the pages is not right. You can read page 18 and the next one is 22, so the reading of the book is quite difficult. Otherwise the book is really good.
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