The second edition of the hugely successful Essential Social Psychology is now even more indispensable!Social psychology is an enormous discipline and it can be easy to get swamped in that enormity. Essential Social Psychology gives an accessible and thorough grounding in the key concepts, the fundamentals - the essentials of social psychology, while providing a lively introduction to the major theoretical debates, new approaches, and findings in the discipline.The Second Edition still has everything students need: short, lively chapters covering the classic and contemporary studies, plenty of illustrations, an extensive glossary and those memory maps to help you remember it all. The authors have added two more chapters, the newest cutting edge research, and detailed the latest exciting and emerging debates and controversies.