Using a variety of examples from everyday experience & from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality & health, the basic theoretical assumptions of social ...

Traditional social psychology assumes that the person has an existing nature that becomes subject to the influence of social environment. This volume draws on theories from ...

Traditional social psychology assumes that the person has an already-existing nature that then becomes subject to the influence of the social environment. The Person in Social ...

This book charts a clear and accessible path through some of the key debates in contemporary psychology. Drawing upon the wider critical and discursive turn in the human ...

Gender and Social Psychology examines issues such as family roles and parenting, inequalities in education, employment and pay and the effects of the media's representation of ...

This 'invitation' focuses on questions of personality in everyday life that intrigue and puzzle us. In this way, we are introduced to both the principles and the fascinating ...

What is critical social psychology? In what ways can social psychology be progressive or radical? How can it be involved in political critique and reconstruction? Is social ...