Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Introduction and overview / Stephen G. Harkins and Kipling D. Williams -- Ethical issues in social influence research / Allan J. Kimmel -- Intrapersonal processes -- Social influence and gender / Linda L. Carli -- Social influence and personality / John B. Nezlek and Carrie Smith -- Interpersonal processes -- On the trail of social comparison / Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler -- Conformity and divergence in interactions, groups, and culture / Bert H. Hodges -- Compliance : a classic and contemporary review / Rosanna E. Guadagno -- Obedience / Jerry Burger -- Social norms and their enforcement / Jessica M. Nolan -- Social inhibition / Megan K. McCarty -- Social facilitation : using the molecular to inform the molar / Allison E. Seitchik, Adam J. Brown, and Stephen G. Harkins -- Protect, correct, and eject : ostracism as a social influence tool / Andrew H. Hales, Dongning Ren, and Kipling D. Williams -- Self-presentation and social influence : evidence for an automatic process / James M. Tyler and Katherine E. Adams -- Emotions as agents of social influence : insights from emotions as social information theory / Gerben van Kleef -- Intragroup processes -- Social identity and social influence / Amber M. Gaffney and Michael Hogg -- Deindividuation / Russell Spears -- Stability and change within groups / Matthew J. Hornsey and Jolanda Jetten -- Minority influence / Fabrizio Butera, Juan Manuel Falomire-Pichastor, and Alain Quiamzade -- The social psychology of leadership / Michael J. Platow, S. Alexander Haslam, and Stephen D. Reicher -- Social influence in applied settings -- Social influence and clinical intervention / Martin Heesacker -- Social influence and health / Leslie R. Martin and M. Robin DiMatteo -- The expanding, lop-sided universe of social influence and law research / Linda Demaine and Robert Cialdini -- Social influence in marketing: how other people influence consumer information processing and decision making / Amna Kirmani and Rosellina Ferraro -- The future -- The future of social influence in social psychology / Kipling D. Williams and Stephen G. Harkins -- Resistance to influence / Brad J. Sagarin and Mary Lynn Miller Henningsen -- The echo chamber / David Byrne -- Index.