Exploring Social Psychology provides a brief and economical introduction to social psychology, which presents concepts and findings in smaller bites - 30 modules that are crisp, concise, and ideally suited to students' attention spans. Written in the engaging Myers style the text attempts to reveal social psychology as an investigative reporter might, by providing a current summary of important social phenomena by showing how social psychology uncovers and explains such phenomena and by reflecting on their human significance. By focusing on humanly significant issues such as belief and illusion, independence and interdependence, love and hate, Myers presents social psychology in ways that inform and stimulate all students, not just future social psychologists. In addition, Module topics focus on the scope social psychology and on highlighting the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

戴維•邁爾斯（David G. Myers），著名的社會心理學傢，在愛荷華大學獲得博士學位後，開始在密歇根的霍普學院任職，被學生評為“最傑齣的教授”。他撰寫的《心理學》是當今最暢銷的心理學導論性教材，600多萬學生用它來學習心理學。他所撰寫的《社會心理學》已經成為這方麵教材的一個典範，是美國心理學教科書市場評價同類教材的一把標尺。他曾在30多種科學書籍和期刊上發錶過多篇論文，包括《科學》《美國科學傢》《心理科學》和《美國心理學科學》等。邁爾斯榮獲美國心理學會頒發的“高爾頓•奧爾波特”奬，以錶彰他在社會心理學教學和研究工作中的突齣貢獻。