Social Beings

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University. A Harvard Ph.D., she has honorary doctorates from the Universite catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. She has just finished a third edition of Social Cognition (1984, 1991, 2008, each with Shelley Taylor) on how people make sense of each other. She has written more than 200 articles and chapters, as well as editing many books and journal special issues. Notably, as part of her effort to keep up with the field she loves, she edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Daniel Schacter and Robert Sternberg) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (5th edition, 2010, with Daniel Gilbert and Gardner Lindzey).

Chapter 1 Introduction: Adaptive Motives for Social Situations, Via Cultures And Brains Chapter 2 Scientific Methods for Studying People in Interaction Chapter 3 Ordinary Personology: Figuring Out Why People Do What They Do Chapter 4 Social Cognition: Making Sense of Others Chapter 5 The Self: Social to The Core Chapter 6 Attitudes and Persuasion: Changing Hearts and Minds Chapter 7 Attraction: Initiating Romance, Friendship, and Other Relationships Chapter 8 Close Relationships: Passion, Interdependence, Commitment, and Intimacy Chapter 9 Helping: Prosocial Behavior Chapter 10 Aggression: Antisocial Behavior Chapter 11 Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Social Biases Chapter 12 Small Groups: Ongoing Interactions Chapter 13 Social Influence: Doing What Others Do and Say Chapter 14 Conclusion: Social Beings