The Science of Social Influence

DescriptionSocial psychology explores some of the most important questions we face as people: how do we create and understand the social self? How ...

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A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behaviorNew social movements, technologies, and public-health initia...

This text engages students in the social media phenomenon, exploring how fundamental changes in mass media influence every level of societal commun...

DescriptionIn this controversial essay, Carlos El as addresses the worldwide phenomenon that is threatening the scientific and economic progress of...

Gives insight into the methods of behavioral research, and highlight how this knowledge might influence the implementation of public policy for the...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sin...

This comprehensive volume brings together fourteen international scholars to reflect on the relevance of John Shotter's work for emerging concerns ...

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DescriptionLaboratory experiments, survey experiments, and field experiments occupy a central and growing place in the discipline of political scie...

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Reducere. The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulC...

This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity scie...

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociali...

Behind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate th...

Over the last three decades, numerous radical right populist parties (RRPP) have emerged, developed, and strengthened their electoral weight in Wes...

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A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our group affiliations have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behaviour...

A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our group affiliations have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behaviour...

Describes the crucial role celebrities played in the emergence of two competing narratives about COVID-19, one a pro-science narrative that advocat...

Today, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multi-media world not only through the traditional media forums, but also thr...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

DescriptionGullibility, whether we like it or not, is a fundamental characteristic of human beings. In The Social Psychology of Gullibility, Forgas...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

This is a vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes - with the scientific evidence to back it ...

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Social psychology uses clever, even ingenious, research methods to explore the most essential questions of the human psyche: Why do we help some pe...

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Reducere. Orion's Door explores the enormous influence one star system has had over humanity. For aeons, Orion and his key stars were worshipped all over the...

DescriptionThis comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined be...

Reducere. Orion's Door explores the enormous influence one star system has had over humanity. For aeons, Orion and his key stars were worshipped all over the...

The Psychology of Brexit examines the psychological causes, catalysts, and consequences of Brexit. Unlike most cultural upheavals, Brexit is not th...

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This engaging book offers the general reader a succinct account of advances in genetics and genomics, showing their influence on our understanding ...

Widely regarded as the founder of the Islamic philosophical tradition, and as the single greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle by his su...

Public Opinion is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political sci...

This Element provides a comprehensive yet concise account of scientific research on children's religious and spiritual (RS) development. After prov...

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Have you ever felt you're not getting through to the person you're talking to, or not coming across the way you intend? You're not alone. That's th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Organizational Weapon is a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually coopt...

Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide ran...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan Goodman"A refreshing look at social media, influence and the behavioral science behind it all. A must-read for any...

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DescriptionThe most influential art theorist and critic of his age, an outstanding man of letters, a sensitive painter and draughtsman, Ruskin's so...

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Contributor(s): Author: Charles DarwinIntroduction by: Ernst MayrIt is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species ...

Can yoga and meditation unleash our inherent supernormal mental powers, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition? Is it really possible to...

Moderation suffers in today's culture of excesses. In resuscitating this discarded virtue, Harry Clor unveils the intrinsic power of moderation to ...

Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...

DescriptionAn in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies.Wealth, and specifi...

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the socia...

DescriptionCombining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Thomas C. LeonardIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda ...

Dogs detect scent from a source that is carried to them in a plume by the wind. The most important tool for a detector dog handler to have on searc...

Reducere. Few economists manage to produce a body of work that boasts a serious following twenty years after their deaths. Murray N. Rothbard is a rare excep...

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art bega...

Reducere. From cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Christian Jarrett, a fascinating book exploring the science of personality and how we can change ourselves for th...

Censorship, Harvard storytelling, judges making law, pseudoscience, and dinosaur deception Those are just some of the answers that explain how Amer...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen PuleoBetween 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred R. MeleDoes free will exist? The question has fueled heated debates spanning from philosophy to psychology and relig...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles De Secondat MontesquieuTranslator: Thomas NugentThis treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously...

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What exactly is civic and political participation? What factors influence young people's participation? How can we encourage youth to participate a...