Authors Gilovich, Keltner, and Nisbett cover classic content while integrating themes like culture, evolution, and neuroscience. Emergent areas of study like emotion, morality, and judgment are included throughout the text to give students the most accurate and contemporary picture of the field. To emphasize the relevance of social psychology in everyday life, the Second Edition includes a capstone chapter on applications, which focuses on topics like personal finance, education, and health. Throughout the text, an illustration program engages students in the scientific process, with You Be the Subject activities and Scientific Method figures.

托马斯·吉洛维奇(Thomas Gilovich)为美国康奈尔大学心理学教授并担任该校行为经济学与决策研究中心的联合主任。他的研究关注人们如何通过对日常生活经验的评估来形成判断、信念和行动决策。吉洛维奇曾获罗素杰出教学奖，是美国心理学学会(American Psychological Society)、美国心理学协会(American Psychological Association)会员，以及特异功能研究委员会成员。他的其他专著包括《我们如何知道事实并非如此：日常生活中人类理性的不可靠性》(How We Know What Isn z S0：The Fallibility ofHuman Reason in Everyday Life 0他还曾与加里·贝尔斯奇(Gary Belsky)合著《聪明人为何在金钱问题上犯大错——以及如何改正Why Smam Peiople Make Big Money Mistakes--and How to Correct Them)，与戴尔·格里芬(Dale Griffin)和丹尼尔·卡尼曼(Daniel Kahneman)合著《启发与偏见：直觉判断的心理学》(Heuristics and Biases：The Psychology ofIntuitive Judgement）。