The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports
Intended for an undergraduate introductory level course in social psychology, this text uses a story-telling approach to convey the science of social psychology. Its aim is to help students understand the whole context of the field - how theories inspire research, why research is performed as it is, and how further research triggers new avenues of study - and how all of this impacts their everyday lives. It incorporating real-life vignettes and mini stories within every chapter that include detailed descriptions of classic and modern experiments, and describe an example of a real-life phenomenon.