Introducing Psychology by Daniel L Schacter

Introducing Psychology by Daniel L Schacter

This widely used, enthusiastically received textbook is the work of one of the most accomplished author teams in introductory psychology, each a distinguished educator and researcher, and three of them (Schacter, Gilbert, and Wegner) authors of bestselling books for general readers. Together, they offer an approachable, engagingly written survey of the field's main ideas, filled with unusual stories, memorable examples, and lots of humor to captivate all kinds of students.

Again carried by the authors' exceptional communication and teaching skills, the new edition has been retooled for the classroom chapter by chapter. Sections in each chapter now have specific Learning Outcomes in place, to emphasize big picture concepts and guide student learning. There is also new boxed feature called A World of Difference highlighting important research on diversity and individual differences, plus new Data Visualization Activities in LaunchPad, to help students build quantitative reasoning skills.

Daniel Gilbert is a Harvard University professor of psychology and the director of the Social Cognition and Emotion Lab. In the disciplines of affective forecasting and the fundamental attribution error, he is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority. He is the editor of The Handbook of Social Psychology and has produced numerous scholarly articles and chapters, as well as several short works of fiction. He has received the American Psychological Association's Outstanding Scientific Prize for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Philosophical Society, and is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences. Gilbert was named one of the fifty most prominent social psychologists of the decade by Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in 2002, and one of his research papers was named one of four modern masterpieces in social psychology by the editors of Psychological Inquiry in 2003.