This text is unique in its focus on situational theory in social psychology; i.e., how a situation affects a person's behavior. The book layers in theory from social psychology, covering many standard topics in the field, from a higher plane of analysis and thinking. There is much original thought and research here, but it is written at an engaging, crisp pace. Very stimulating for the lay person and the professional.

The Person and The Situation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Nisbett, Richard E.

Ross, Lee

Psychology & Counseling

Mcgraw-Hill College

Presenting theories about why humankind, despite its efforts for peace, is in a perpetual state of conflict, the members of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation consider the obstacles against and processes for harmonious communication.

Barriers to Conflict Resolution

Business & Money

Mnookin, Robert H.

Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation

Management & Leadership

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

In this groundbreaking synthesis of the central themes of social psychology and personality theory, Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett attempt to reconcile common sense and common experience with the empirical lessons and challenges that lie at the core of social psychology. The Person and the Situation seeks to provide an overview of social psychology’s primary scientific and intellectual contributions, one that serves to challenge, reform, and expand common sense. 
Ross and Nisbett identify three contributions of social psychology that have significantly influenced the study of the individual and society: the power and subtlety of situational influences on behavior; the need to recognize the subjective nature of situational influence; and the utility of regarding both individual psyches and social groups as "tension systems." The authors show how these themes inform the study of any topic having to do with social behavior. Their highly original and penetrating analysis of how we can better understand the interaction of people and their life situations leads to new insights on how to design effective interventions that can work to enhance individual and societal functioning.

The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

Temple Univ Pr

In this companion to the revised trade book, author, speaker and leadership expert Ken Blanchard guides readers through the process of discovering how to lead like Jesus. Effective leadership-in all realms of your life-starts on the inside. Before you can hope to lead anyone else, you have to know who you are. 
In 6 lessons, Lead Like Jesus Workbook will take you through the process of aligning two internal domains, the heart and the head, and two external domains, the hands and the habits, so that you can put the love of Jesus into action.

Lead Like Jesus Study Guide: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time

BLANCHARD, KEN

HODGES, PHIL

Willis, Avery

HarperChristian Resources

The business spotlight hit Ken Blanchard in the 1980s with the phenomenal success of The One-Minute Manager, co-authored with Spencer Johnson. While his reputation among secular professionals worldwide continues to grow, his heart is increasingly focused on a simple, powerful message: Lead Like Jesus. To that end, he and longtime friend Phil Hodges co-founded the Center for FaithWalk Leadership and began teaching the "lead like Jesus" concepts around the world. Now they're expanding their reach into churches and organizations to reach tens of thousands of leaders who wouldn't otherwise be able to participate in a live event. The Lead Like Jesus kit will include a study guide, leader's guide, Servant Leader gift book, 2 DVDs with 22 illustrations for the eight group sessions, and a DVD with overviews to assist the group leader. The Lead Like Jesus movement launched on November 20 with a simulcast featuring leadership experts such as Rick Warren, Dan Cathy, Don Soderquist, Laurie Beth Jones, Bill Pollard, Mickey Blackwell, and Rosey Grier.

Lead Like Jesus Group Study Multi-media Curriculum: Beginning the Journey

Religion & Spirituality

Blanchard, Kenneth H.

Christian Books & Bibles

Thomas Nelson. Inc.

Renowned psychologists describe the most useful insights from social psychology that can help make you “wise”: wise about why people behave the way they do, and wise about how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing the people in your life. When faced with a challenge, we often turn to those we trust for words of wisdom. Friends, relatives, and colleagues: someone with the best advice about how to boost sales, the most useful insights into raising children, or the sharpest take on an ongoing conflict. In The Wisest One in the Room, renowned social psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross ask: Why? What do these people know? What are the foundations of their wisdom? And, as professors and researchers who specialize in the study of human behavior, they wonder: What general principles of human psychology are they drawing on to reach these conclusions? They begin by noting that wisdom, unlike intelligence, demands some insight into people—their hopes, fears, passions, and drives. It’s true for the executive running a Fortune 500 company, the candidate seeking public office, the artist trying to create work that will speak to the ages, or the single parent trying to get a child through the tumultuous adolescent years. To be wise, they maintain, one must be psych-wise. Gilovich and Ross show that to answer any kind of behavioral question, it is essential to understand the details—especially the hidden and subtle details—of the situational forces acting upon us. Understanding these forces is the key to becoming wiser in the way we understand the people and events we encounter, and wiser in the way we deal with the challenges that are sure to come our way—perhaps even the key to becoming “the wisest in the room.”

The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights

Self-Help

Gilovich, Thomas

Happiness

Free Press

Renowned psychologists describe the five most useful insights from social psychology that will help make you “wise”: wise about why we behave the way we do, and wise about how to use that knowledge to understand others and change ourselves for the better. When faced with a challenge, we often turn to those we trust for words of wisdom. Friends, relatives, and colleagues: someone with the best advice about how to boost sales, the most useful insights into raising children, or the sharpest take on a political issue. In The Wisest One in the Room, renowned social psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross ask: Why? What do these people know? What are the foundations of their wisdom? And, as professors and researchers who specialize in the study of human behavior, they wonder: What general principles of human psychology are they drawing on to reach these conclusions? They find that wisdom, unlike intelligence, demands some insight into people—their hopes, fears, passions, and drives. It’s true for the executive running a Fortune 500 company, the candidate seeking public office, the artist trying to create work that will speak to the ages, or the single parent trying to get a child through the tumultuous adolescent years. To be wise, they discover, one must be psych-wise when dealing with everyday challenges. In The Wisest One in the Room Gilovich and Ross show that to answer any kind of behavioral question, it is essential to understand the details—especially the hidden and subtle details—of the situational forces acting upon us. Understanding these forces is the key to becoming wiser in the way we understand the people and events we encounter, and wiser in the way we deal with the challenges that are sure to come our way. With the lessons gleaned here, you can learn the key to becoming “the wisest one in the room.”

Physics

Andrew Olesnicky

How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. With a new foreword by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.

Pinter & Martin

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