1. Social Psychology by David G. Myers, 6/e
Chapter One
Introducing Social Psychology

2. Social psychology and related disciplines
Social psychology and sociology
Social psychology and personality psychology
Levels of explanation
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4. Social psychology and human values
Obvious ways in which values enter
Not-so-obvious ways in which values enter
The subjective aspects of science
Psychological concepts contain hidden values
There is no bridge from “is” to “ought”
Social psychology in three worlds
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5. Is social psychology simply common sense?
Hindsight bias
The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen it
Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon
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7. How we do social psychology
Forming and testing theories and hypotheses
Correlational research: Detecting natural associations
Correlation versus causation
Survey research
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11. How we do social psychology
Experimental research: searching for cause and effect
Control: Manipulating variables
Random assignment: The great equalizer
The ethics of experimentation
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