Customer Reviews

Social Psychology: Text with CD-ROM and Critical Thinking Reader

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Easy to read yet scholarly. Great illustrations. Space in the margins for notes. Good chapter overviews and summaries. Nice T/F questions to prime the reader. Sources used appropriately. It is truly the ideal textbook.

The format, layout, and writing style make this the text that other writers should follow.

I recommend this book. It is Easy to read and to understand, it is very informative. This book is expensive but it is worthy.

I bought this book for a course i'm taking in college (Social Psychology) and it was very informative. I really liked how there are questions for each chapter that are true and false AND they get answered too. Plus at the end of each chapter, they are chapter reviews :)

Easy to understand but not exactly interesting. Unless it's required reading, I would recommend spending on Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking instead. It's cheaper, goes over a lot of the same material, and is much more interesting than this.

...it's required reading, that is th eonly reason I bought this book. I find it dry and not very engaging. However, I did save over $100 buying it used.

After a semester using the text i have come to the conclusion that the authors, Brehm, Kassin, and Fein, leave more questions then answers and that their sub-par sense of humor is more then just a waste of money. After reading certain sections i get the feeling that the authors do not clearly understand the issue at hand, but rather throw 15 different research studies at the topic covering their uncertainty and topping it off with a dire attempt at a joke leaving the reader completely ambiguous.

I'm not sold on social psychology. Part of my issue with this discipline is my personal fight to never let people pigeon-hole me and this seems to want to it on a grand scale. Some of the text does not help one see how issues of individual psychological development tie in to the study of social psychology. This is a great failing because many people no very little about this topic.