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EXPLORING Social Psychology

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“We cannot live for ourselves alone,” remarked the novelist Herman Melville, “for our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads.” Social psychologists study those connec tions by scientifically exploring how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. In the fir...

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EXPLORING
Social Psychology
Eighth Edition

David G. Myers
Jean M. Twenge

,Exploring Social
Psychology
EIGHTH EDITION

David G. Myers
Hope College

Jean M. Twenge
San Diego State University

,EXPLORING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, EIGHTH EDITION

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Names: Myers, David G., author. | Twenge, Jean M., 1971— author.
Title: Exploring social psychology / David G. Myers, Hope College, Jean M.
Twenge, San Diego State University.
Description: Eighth edition. | New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, [2018]
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Subjects: LCSH: Social psychology.
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, About the Authors

S
ince receiving his University of Iowa PhD,
David Myers has professed psychology at

Michigan’s Hope College. Hope College stu-
dents have invited him to be their commencement
speaker and voted him “outstanding professor.”
With support from National Science Foundation
grants, Myers’s research has appeared in some three
dozen scientific books and periodicals, including Sci-
ence, the American Scientist, Psychological Science,
and the American Psychologist.
He has also communicated psychological science
through his articles appearing in four dozen maga-
zines, from Today’s Education to Scientific American,
and through his 17 books, including The Pursuit of
Happiness and Intuition: Its Powers and Perils.
Myers’s research and writings have been recog- Courtesy of Hope College
nized by the Gordon Allport Prize, by an “honored
scientist” award from the Federation of Associations
in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and by the Award for Distinguished Service on Be-
half of Personality-Social Psychology.
He has chaired his city’s Human Relations Commission, helped found a center for
families in poverty, and spoken to hundreds of college and community groups. In recogni-
tion of his efforts to transform the way America provides assistive listening for people with
hearing loss (see hearingloop.org), he has received awards from the American Academy of
Audiology and the Hearing Loss Association of America.
David and Carol Myers have three children and one grandchild.

As Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, Jean M. Twenge has authored in
more than 120 scientific publications on generational differences, cultural change, social
rejection, gender roles, self-esteem, and narcissism. Her research has been covered in Time,
Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and The

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