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Samuel R. Sommers
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, To my grandchildren: Jacob, Jason, Ruth, Eliana, Natalie, Rachel, and Leo. My hope is that your capacity
for empathy and compassion will help make the world a better place.
—E.A.
To my family, Deirdre Smith, Christopher Wilson, and Leigh Wilson
—T.D.W.
To my students—past, present, and future—for making coming to work each morning fun,
educational, and unpredictable.
—S.R.S.
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EDITION
Social Psychology
TENTH EDITION
Elliot Aronson • Timothy D. Wilson • Samuel R. Sommers
, Social Psychology
Tenth Edition
Global Edition
Elliot Aronson
Timothy D. Wilson
Samuel R. Sommers
Harlow, England • London • New York • Boston • San Francisco • Toronto • Sydney • Dubai • Singapore • Hong Kong
Tokyo • Seoul • Taipei • New Delhi • Cape Town • São Paulo • Mexico City • Madrid • Amsterdam • Munich • Paris • Milan
A01_ARON1477_10_GE_FM.indd 1 20/02/20 3:14
,Portfolio Manager: Kelli Strieby Senior Field Marketing Manager: Debi Doyle
Content Producer: Cecilia Turner/Lisa Mafrici Content Producer Manager: Amber Mackey
Content Developer: Thomas Finn Content Development Manager: Sharon Geary
Content Producer, Global Edition: Sudipto Roy Media Production Manager, Global Edition: Vikram Kumar
Manufacturing Controller, Global Edition: Caterina Pellegrino Art/Designer: Blair Brown
Project Editor, Global Edition: Punita Kaur Mann Digital Studio Course Producer: Lindsay Verge
Assistant Project Editor, Global Edition: Jyotis Elizabeth Jacob Full-Service Project Manager: Angel Chavez
Portfolio Manager Assistant: Louis Fierro Cover Design: SPi Global
Executive Product Marketing Manager: Christopher Brown Cover Credit: Jess Rodrigues/Shutterstock
Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook
appear on the appropriate page within the text or on pages 567–570.
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© Pearson Education Limited 2021
The rights of Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, and Samuel R. Sommers to be identified as the authors of this
work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Authorized adaptation from the United States edition, entitled Social Psychology, 10th Edition, ISBN 978-0-13-464128-7
by Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, and Samuel R. Sommers, published by Pearson Education © 2021.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in
any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without either the prior
written permission of the publisher or a license permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued
by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. This p ublication
is protected by copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited
reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, m echanical,
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www.pearsoned.com/permissions/.
PEARSON, ALWAYS LEARNING, and Revel are exclusive trademarks owned by Pearson Education, Inc.
or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries.
All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. The use of any trademark in this text does
not vest in the author or publisher any trademark ownership rights in such trademarks, nor does the use of such
trademarks imply any affiliation with or endorsement of this book by such owners.
This eBook is a standalone product and may or may not include all assets that were part of the print version. It
also does not provide access to other Pearson digital products like MyLab and Mastering. The publisher reserves
the right to remove any material in this eBook at any time.
ISBN 10: 1-292-34147-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-292-34147-7
eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-292-34151-4
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Typeset in Palatino LT Pro 9.5/13 by SPi Global
, To my grandchildren: Jacob, Jason, Ruth, Eliana, Natalie, Rachel, and Leo. My hope is that your capacity
for empathy and compassion will help make the world a better place.
—E.A.
To my family, Deirdre Smith, Christopher Wilson, and Leigh Wilson
—T.D.W.
To my students—past, present, and future—for making coming to work each morning fun,
educational, and unpredictable.
—S.R.S.
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