This is the first book-length work to reflect the recent trend in social psychology away from artificial laboratory test results
Social Encounters is an approach to social psychology that is not what one might expect to find in textbooks on this subject
In this second edition of a major student text, Michael Argyle includes chapters on research methods, social skills and personality.
Provides a comprehensive account of the psychology of everday life. Argyle covers many of the most pressing concerns of the day including conflict and aggression, racial prejudice, leisure, work, friendship and health.
First published in 1964 Psychology and Social Problems looks at a changing society and research into problems of the time. Many of the themes in the book, such as delinquency, mental health and racial conflict and are still familiar and current topics of discussion today.
Is human nature cooperative? Man is often said to be a social animal – but what does that mean? Michael Argyle believed that one of the most... Læs mere
Originally published in 1975, this book is a completely rewritten, revised version of Michael Argyle’s standard work, Religious Behaviour, first published in 1958. A... Læs mere
Michael Argyle's new book is an introduction to the psychology of religion from one of the world's most famous experimental psychologists.
No study of religious practise ancient or modern is complete without reference to work of sociologists on religious practise. Social, economic and behavioural contexts of religious activity are explored in this book.