Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology

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Wiley, 2010 - Motivation - 694 pages
Fiske provides psychologists with a cutting-edge approach on evolutionary and cross-cultural psychology. The book addresses research on three different levels: brain function and cognition, individual and situations, and groups and cultures. The second edition has been updated to present contemporary research in social psychology. It also discusses increasingly important issues in the field. This includes emotion science and the impact of neuroscience on social and personality psychology. Psychologists agree that the second edition captures an important movement in social psychology with the core motives approach.

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About the author (2010)

Eugene Borgida is Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of Minnesota and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology. He is also co-author of the forthcoming book, "The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship "(with John L. Sullivan and Christopher Federico).

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her publications include "Social Cognition"": From Brains to Culture" (with Shelley Taylor, 2008) and "Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology" (2004).

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