This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...

Gordon W. Allport’s 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice not only helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate prejudice it also shaped US society as a whole, making a substantial contribution to the Civil Rights Movement and America’s anti-discrimination and anti-segregation laws.¶The book was immensely influential in the cognitive revolution of the 1950s, showing scientists how to take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mind. The intergroup contact theory first set...

本套書組合：《謠言心理學》、《證人席上》共二冊《謠言心理學》美國政府二戰期間「謠言研究專案」經典心理學研究成果！從設立「謠言診所」到探究人民拒絕相信「珍珠港事件戰損」──一份為「闢謠穩定民心」而追擊謠言真相的心理學報告：★ 為什麼人們總是忍不住分享未經證實的消息？★「聽說」的背後藏著共同的焦慮，比病毒傳播更快的，是情緒！★ 了解謠言變形三部曲，八卦傳播有什麼共通模式？★ 真實案例呈現人類滿足於誇大，被恐懼支配，為何使謠言比權威機構消息更易被信服？

美國政府二戰期間「謠言研究專案」經典心理學研究成果！從設立「謠言診所」到探究人民拒絕相信「珍珠港事件戰損」──一份為「闢謠穩定民心」而追擊謠言真相的心理學報告：★ 為什麼人們總是忍不住分享未經證實的消息？★「聽說」的背後藏著共同的焦慮，比病毒傳播更快的，是情緒！★ 了解謠言變形三部曲，八卦傳播有什麼共通模式？★ 真實案例呈現人類滿足於誇大，被恐懼支配，為何使謠言比權威機構消息更易被信服？心理學家奧波特的《謠言心理學》無疑是一個里程碑式的謠言傳播研究起始之作，全書語言通俗易懂，例證豐富。作者提出了著名的謠言公式：流行謠言傳播的「廣度...

Investigations of personality may be focused upon any one of three different levels of phenomena. The first is the level of traits, interests, attitudes, or sentiments considered as composing an "inner" personality; the second is the level of behaviour and expression; the third is the level of impression, the perception and interpretation of behaviour by another. Since a discovery on one of these levels establishes a presumption that the phenomenon in question has some counterpart on the o...

With his 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice, American psychologist Gordon Allport displays the crucial skill of reasoning, producing and organizing an argument that was persuasive enough to have a major impact not only in universities, but also on government policy.The question that Allport tackled was an old one: why are people so disposed to prejudice against those from other groups? Earlier psychologists had suggested a number of reasons, especially in the case of racial...

This volume, the Frank Gerstein Lectures for 1963, is the second series of Invitation Lectures to be delivered at York University. The theme “Imagination and the University” was appropriate for, as President Murray Ross states in this Foreword, it is in its early years that a university is sufficiently flexible to utilize imagination in its structure and in its curriculum. York University was in its third year when the Lectures were given.Four distinguished scholars present their v...