When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish.

In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man, world-class social psychologist Richard E. Nisbett takes on the idea of intelligence as biologically determined and impervious to culture with vast implications for the role ...

Written by four award-winning teachers and researchers who represent the breadth and depth of the field, Social Psychology , fourth edition, encourages students to become critical thinkers about the research, theories and applications of ...

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In this brilliantly argued book, Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen use this fact as a starting point for an exploration of the underlying reasons for violence.According to Nisbett and Cohen, the increased tendency of white southerners to commit ...

The theme of this book is that the Southern United States had—and has—a type of culture of honor.

In this book, Nisbett shows how to frame common problems in such a way that these scientific and staitistical principles can be applied to them.

A captivating introduction to the research, applications, and excitement of today's social psychology.

Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks.

In this brilliantly argued book, Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen use this fact as a starting point for an exploration of the underlying reasons for violence.