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2014

Principles of Social Psychology

Charles Stangor, Rajiv Jhangiani & Hammond Tarry

An open introductory textbook surveying the field's core method - controlled experiment - and its central finding that situational forces shape behaviour more powerfully than most people expect or acknowledge.

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Too easy? Go hereThe Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution ProcessLee Ross, 1977Names the fundamental attribution error - the pervasive tendency to explain others' behaviour by their disposition while overlooking the situation that constrained it - and argues it distorts everyday social judgement more than any single classic bias.

Filed under Social Psychology in Psychology.