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| Preface | p. vii |
| Correlation Guide | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| General Issues in Social Psychology | p. 1 |
| Is Deception of Human Participants Ethical? | p. 2 |
| YES: Alan C. Elms, from "Keeping Deception Honest: Justifying Conditions for Social Scientific Research Stratagems," in T. L. Beauchamp, R. R. Faden, R. J. Wallace, & L. Walters, eds., Ethical Issues in Social Science Research (Johns Hopkins University Press,... MORE | p. 4 |
| NO: Diana Baumrind, from "Research Using Intentional Deception," American Psychologist (vol. 40, 1985) | p. 15 |
| Should Social Psychologists Try to Solve Social Problems? | p. 28 |
| YES: Arthur Aron and Elaine Aron, from "Chutzpah: Social Psychology Takes on the Big Issues," The Heart of Social Psychology (Lexington Books, 1989) | p. 30 |
| NO: David Kipnis, from "Accounting for the Use of Behavior Technologies in Social Psychology," American Psychology (vol. 49, 1994) | p. 38 |
| Can Experimental Social Psychology and Social Constructionism Coexist? | p. 50 |
| YES: John T. Jost and Arie Kruglanski, from "The Estrangement of Social Constructionism and Experimental Social Psychology: History of the Rift and the Prospects for Reconciliation," Personality and Social Psychology Review (August 2002) | p. 52 |
| NO: Jonathan Potter, from "Experimenting with Reconciliation: A Comment on Jost and Kruglanski," Personality and Social Psychology Review (August 2002) | p. 71 |
| Social Cognition | p. 77 |
| Are Our Social Perceptions Often Inaccurate? | p. 78 |
| YES: Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett, from The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology (McGraw-Hill, 1991) | p. 80 |
| NO: David C. Funder, from "Errors and Mistakes: Evaluating the Accuracy of Social Judgment," Psychological Bulletin (vol. 101, 1987) | p. 87 |
| Does Cognitive Dissonance Explain Why Behavior Can Change Attitudes? | p. 100 |
| YES: Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith, from "Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance," The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (vol. 58, 1959) | p. 102 |
| NO: Daryl J. Bem, from "Self-Perception: An Alternative Interpretation of Cognitive Dissonance Phenomena," Psychological Review (May 1967) | p. 112 |
| Are Self-Esteem Programs Misguided? | p. 118 |
| YES: Roy F. Baumeister, from "Should Schools Try to Boost Self-Esteem?" American Educator (Summer 1996) | p. 120 |
| NO: William Swan Jr., Christine Chang-Schneider, and Katie Larsen McClarty, from "Do People's Self-Views Matter? Self-Concept and Self-Esteem in Everyday Life," American Psychologist (February/March 2007) | p. 131 |
| Can People Accurately Detect Lies? | p. 148 |
| YES: Paul Ekman, Maureen O'Sullivan, & Mark G. Frank, from "A Few Can Catch a Liar," Psychological Science (May 1999) | p. 150 |
| NO: Bella DePaulo, "Spotting Lies: Can Humans Learn to Do Better," from Current Directions in Psychological Science (June 1994) | p. 156 |
| Are Repressed Memories Real? | p. 163 |
| YES: Richard P. Kluft, from "The Argument for the Reality of Delayed Recall of Trauma," in Paul S. Applebaum, Lisa A. Uyehara, and Mark R. Elin, eds., Trauma and Memory: Clinical and Legal Controversies (Oxford University Press, 1997) | p. 165 |
| NO: Elizabeth F. Loftus, from "Creating False Memories," Scientific American (September 1997) | p. 174 |
| Do Positive Illusions Lead to Healthy Behavior? | p. 182 |
| YES: Shelley E. Taylor and Jonathon D. Brown, from "Illusion and Well-Being: A Social Psychological Perspective on Mental Health," Psychological Bulletin (March 1988) | p. 184 |
| NO: C. Randall Colvin, Jack Block, and David C. Funder, from "Overly Positive Self-Evaluations and Personality: Negative Implications for Mental Health," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (June 1995) | p. 199 |
| Social Influence | p. 207 |
| Do Milgram's Obedience Experiments Help Explain the Nature of the Holocaust? | p. 208 |
| YES: John P. Sabini and Maury Silver, in Survivors, Victims and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust (Hemisphere Publishing, 1980) | p. 210 |
| NO: Florence R. Miale and Michael Selzer, from The Nuremberg Mind (Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company, 1975) | p. 220 |
| Does the Stanford Prison Experiment Help Explain the Effects of Imprisonment? | p. 228 |
| YES: Craig Haney and Philip Zimbardo, from "The Past and Future of U.S. Prison Policy: Twenty-Five Years after the Stanford Prison Experiment," American Psychologist (July 1998) | p. 230 |
| NO: David T. Lykken, from "Psychology and the Criminal Justice System: A Reply to Haney and Zimbardo," The General Psychologist (Spring 2000) | p. 245 |
| Is Subliminal Persuasion a Myth? | p. 254 |
| YES: Anthony R. Pratkanis, from "The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion," Skeptical Inquirer (vol. 16, 1992) | p. 256 |
| NO: Nicholas Epley, Kenneth Savitsky, and Robert A. Kachelski, from "What Every Skeptic Should Know about Subliminal Persuasion," Skeptical Inquirer (vol. 23, 1999) | p. 268 |
| Can People Really Be Brainwashed? | p. 281 |
| YES: Trudy Solomon, from "Programming and Deprogramming the Moonies: Social Psychology Applied," The Brainwashing/Deprogramming Controversy (Edwin Mellen Press, 1983) | p. 283 |
| NO: James T. Richardson, from "A Social Psychological Critique of 'Brainwashing' Claims about Recruitment to New Religions," The Handbook of Cults and Sects in America (JAI Press, 1993) | p. 292 |
| International Society for Research on Aggression | p. 307 |
| Is Stereotyping Inevitable? | p. 308 |
| YES: Patricia G. Devine, from "Stereotypes and Prejudice: Their Automatic and Controlled Components," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (January 1989) | p. 310 |
| NO: Lorella Lepore and Rupert Brown, from "Category and Stereotype Activation: Is Prejudice Inevitable?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (February 1997) | p. 325 |
| Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) Measure Racial Prejudice? | p. 340 |
| YES: Shankar Vedantam, from "See No Bias," The Washington Post (January 23, 2005). | p. 342 |
| NO: Amy Wax and Philip E. Tetlock, from "We Are All Racists At Heart," The Wall Street Journal (December 1, 2005) | p. 349 |
| Can Stereotypes Lead to Accurate Perceptions of Others? | p. 352 |
| YES: Lee J. Jussim, Clark R. McCauley, and Yueh-Ting Lee, from "Why Study Stereotype Accuracy and Inaccuracy?" Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences (APA, 1995) | p. 354 |
| NO: Charles Stangor, from "Content and Application Inaccuracy in Social Stereotyping," Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences (APA, 1995) | p. 365 |
| Does True Altruism Exist? | p. 376 |
| YES: C. Daniel Batson, Bruce D. Duncan, Paula Ackerman, Terese Buckley, and Kimberly Birch, from "Is Empathic Emotion a Source of Altruistic Motivation?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (February 1981) | p. 378 |
| NO: Robert B. Cialdini, Mark Schaller, Donald Houlihan, Kevin Arps, Jim Fultz, and Arthur L. Beaman, from "Empathy-Based Helping: Is It Selflessly or Selfishly Motivated?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (April 1987) | p. 389 |
| Does Media Violence Cause Aggression? | p. 400 |
| YES: Brad J. Bushman and Craig A. Anderson, from "Media Violence and the American Public: Scientific Facts Versus Media Misinformation," American Psychologist (June/July 2001) | p. 402 |
| NO: Jonathan L. Freedman, from Media Violence and Aggression (University of Toronto Press, 2002) | p. 417 |
| Contributors | p. 427 |
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