Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 372
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7425-4771-1 • Hardback • December 2006 • $144.00 • (£111.00)
978-0-7425-4772-8 • Paperback • December 2006 • $71.00 • (£55.00)
978-1-4616-3852-0 • eBook • December 2006 • $67.00 • (£52.00)
Michael Lovaglia is professor of sociology and departmental executive officer at the University of Iowa. He founded the journal Current Research in Social Psychology, and his articles have been published in The American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Social Psychology Quarterly. His basic research on social power, status, and emotion has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.
Chapter 1 The Power of the Situation over You
Chapter 2 Knowing Yourself and Other People Too
Chapter 3 Who Are You?
Chapter 4 Of Sound Mind
Chapter 5 Influence: Getting People to Listen to You
Chapter 6 Persuasion: What Will It Take to Convince You?
Chapter 7 Your Place in the Workplace
Chapter 8 Why I'm Prejudiced
Chapter 9 The Power In and Out of Love
Chapter 10 Leadership and Emotion (The Story Yet to be Told)
Knowing People is highly readable. The book would be appropriate for an introductory social psychology class, an introductory sociology class that emphasizes social psychology or a class for non-majors.
— Teaching Sociology
This engaging, easy to read, book will be great supplement to an introduction to social psychology or introduction to sociology course. What makes this book unique is the way Lovaglia overlays personal examples from his own life onto rich descriptions of social scientific research. The result is a text that is a highly effective in its ability to teach fundamental concepts in social psychology and also one that illustrates the usefulness of social psychology to students' everyday lives.
— Shelley Correll, Cornell University