This collection of classroom-tested laboratory and field exercises engages students and their instructors in a thorough exploration of current central problems and topics in social psychology. The book is divided into three sections: technique demonstrations, technique applications, and problem investigations. Each section includes exercises on topics such as questionnaire design, interviewing, speech style, the observation of children, eyewitness testimony, and cooperation and competition. Students are provided with the necessary background knowledge of each social phenomenon investigated to...

Provides grounds for arguing that the diversity of theorizing in the field of personal relationships is healthy at this point in time. Each chapter contributes to thinking and research about personal relationships and adds to a range of usable theoretical structures.