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3 Mar 2008
The SAGE Library in Social and Personality Psychology Methods provides students and researchers with an understanding of the methods and techniques essential to conducting cutting-edge research.

Each volume within the Library explains a specific topic and has been written by an active scholar (or scholars) with expertise in that particular methodological domain. Assuming no prior knowledge of the topic, the volumes are clear and accessible for all readers. In each volume, a topic is introduced, applications are discussed, and readers are led step by step through worked examples. In addition, advice about how to interpret and prepare results for publication are presented.

Social Psychophysiology for Social and Personality Psychology provides methodological and technical information to help social psychologists make valid and valuable use of peripheral neurophysiological and endocrine measures of psychological constructs.


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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; (Reissue) edition (3 Mar 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1857024052
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857024050
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 19.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 43,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘The natural exuberance and extravagance of Chabon’s writing is matched by dazzling wit.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A deliriously funny novel…Chabon’s elegant style, perfectly realised characters and comic vision combine to make the most enjoyable novel of the year.’ Esquire

‘A wonderfully teasing comic novel…Chabon juggles all these preoccupations with a quirky deftness he employs in his first novel.’ Independent

‘“Wonder Boys” is a superb creation, a raucously comic yet deeply lyrical work. Chabon has evolved into a seriously funny writer, a master of the comic set-up.’ Sunday Times

About the Author

Michael Chabon is the author of two collections of stories for adults, ‘A Model World’ and ‘Werewolves in their Youth’; a children’s book, ‘Summerland’; the novels ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’, ‘Wonder Boys’ (which has been made into a film), ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’ (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); and the short story ‘The Final Solution’. His most recent work is ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Spiderman 2. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire and Playboy. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their four children.


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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Watch the film... 10 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback
I nearly always read a book first and then watch the film, usually tutting throughout that `it's not like that in the book'. With Wonder Boys however the process has been reversed as I am a big fan of Curtis Hanson's fabulous film which I have seen several times but have only just read the book.

Whether it was my love for the film or Chabon's cold writing style I'm not sure but I never really got into Wonder Boys. Chabon is undoubtedly a gifted writer but always, to me at least, seems to have the knack of writing unlikeable characters. Michael Douglas made Grady Tripp almost loveable in the film, here he's a bit unfathomable and the key relationship with Crabtree (done so much better in the film) never convinces.

I never thought I'd say this but, given the choice, watch the film.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Mary Whipple HALL OF FAME TOP 100 REVIEWER
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In this farcical send-up of academia and the writing life, author Michael Chabon focuses on forty-ish author Grady Tripp, an aptly named writer/professor who is so often stoned that after seven years he has written two thousand pages of a book that is not even close to being finished. Grady's book, Wonder Boys, is much like his life--lacking in focus, fixated on the moment, and completely empty of goals or a sense of direction. His third wife has walked out on him; he's been carrying on a five-year affair with Sarah Gaskell, the Chancellor of the college, who is now pregnant with his baby; his editor is pressing him for a final draft of his unfinished book; and his publisher and everyone at the college are wondering if he will ever duplicate the success of his first novel.

During a writer's conference at the college, Grady "saves" one of his students, James Leer, from a possible suicide attempt, but his "mentoring" of James leads to hilariously absurd disasters for both of them. Grady's editor Terry Crabtree, the tuba-playing transvestite "girlfriend" he has brought with him, a collector of memorabilia from the marriage of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, Grady's estranged wife, the pregnant Chancellor, and the violent owner of a car that Grady was given to settle a debt, flesh out the characters and keep the reader amused and laughing almost non-stop.

As the weekend progresses and Grady's personal life further unravels, he finds himself driving around with the transvestite's tuba, the Chancellor's fatally shot malamute, and an equally dead ten-foot boa in the car's trunk. Scenes in which he tries to prevent the trunk from being opened are worthy of the Marx Brothers.

The dialogue is snappy, the narrative speeds along, the word play and humor never flag, and the satire of academic life and the world of writers shows the stamp of familiarity and the author's own wacky sense of perspective. A grand farce which carries the bite of satire, Wonder Boys avoids the arch self-consciousness of so many novels of academia and comes across instead as pure, unadulterated fun. n Mary Whipple
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Seen the film? - read the book 13 Dec 2006
By Benjamin TOP 500 REVIEWER
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The story ostensibly centres on Prof Grady Tripp's attempts at completing his increasingly out of control follow up novel of the title, Wonder Boys; yet as is not surprising with Michael Chabon, as well as an interesting plot, it is very much about characters and relationships. Central here, in addition to Grady himself, are his editor Terry Crabtree and young student James Lear, something of a loner, as well as host of other divers characters including Grady's pregnant mistress, an adoring female student, a transvestite, a dead dog and a tuba.
The real beauty of the novel is the interaction between the various characters. Grady and carefree drug reliant Crabtree are long standing friends and this clearly comes through. Crabtree has a crush on the Grady's mysterious student, the unreliable James; Grady's beautiful student tenant has a crush on him; and Grady's third marriage is coming to an end while he pursues his mistress, the college Chancellor. His failing marriage does not prevent visiting his wife's family for Thanksgiving, and taking along James. The relationship between Grady and James is particularly well drawn; while seemingly a little detached from James, it is clear from Grady's actions and the superbly written lengthy dialogues between the two that Grady cares about James.
No one comes out of this shining, the individual characters do have their redeeming features, it would be a mistake to right them off as insincere, and one cannot help be drawn to these people for all their human failings.
Wonder Boys is very funny, enjoyable and at times moving, but above all it is the beauty of Chabon's writing that makes it an absolute must read. If you've seen the film you must read the book, there are, not surprisingly, differences.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Film version is better than the book
The first half is pretty good, up to the scene in the Hi Hat barroom. Then the story loses focus and begins to meander quite badly to the point were it becomes a chore to read. Read more
Published 24 days ago by BS on parade
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, horrible edition.
Wonder Boys is one of Chabon's most likeable stories. Every character is fatally flawed in just the right way to make all adventures and mishaps interesting without being... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Maupertus
2.0 out of 5 stars A book without much of an understandable plot
I may be going out on a limb here - given that the other reviews on here are largely positive - but I'm afraid to say I didn't like this book at all. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. Robert F. Hicks
4.0 out of 5 stars opens really well but does not sustain the pace
I thought the opening section of this novel - the first third of it or so - was really great as Grady Tripp moves from one disaster to the next, barely but just barely sufficiently... Read more
Published 14 months ago by William Jordan
5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely well written
Michael Chabon really is a fantastic writer. This really was a pleasure to read.
It's not that often that I reread chapters of a book just to savour the writing. Read more
Published 22 months ago by The Emperor
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderboys Review
This is another novel that proves that Michael Chabon is one of the greatest writers of our generation. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2010 by ISeeMountains
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, charming, enlightening...
A great read. Charming, humorous, very readable, and yet very telling in its analysis of the human condition and what people will do to get where they want to get in life. Read more
Published on 4 May 2010 by Nicodemus Jones
3.0 out of 5 stars Will disappoint fans of 'Kavalier & Clay'
The story goes that Chabon composed Wonder Boys in a few weeks, after getting stuck on a 1,000 page tome. Read more
Published on 22 May 2008 by reader 451
4.0 out of 5 stars Mid-life crisis and writers block make a fertile ground for drama here
A fine amalgam of several American themes into one, Wonder Boys successfully combines elements of the campus novel with those of writer's block and family get-togethers for holiday... Read more
Published on 11 April 2008 by Annabel Gaskell
5.0 out of 5 stars a lush loll among louche lushes
What I loved about Wonder Boys is its droll expansiveness, the way our narrator manages to be hilariously self-deprecating, while Chabon himself uses extended metaphor and Homeric... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2004 by lowell duluth
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