Author: Michael Argyle

Originally published in 1975, this book is a completely rewritten, revised version of Michael Argyle’s standard work, Religious Behaviour, first pu...

The first edition of this book outlined what amounted to a breakthrough in the analysis of social behaviour. Since then it has become widely used a...

Originally published in 1957, this book presented an up-to-date account of psychological research into human social behaviour of the time. There ar...

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 t...

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 importa...

Originally published in 1975, this book is a completely rewritten, revised version of Michael Argyle’s standard work, Religious Behaviour, first pu...

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 importa...

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 th...

Social Encounters is an approach to social psychology that is not what one might expect to find in textbooks on this subject. As a companion to Soc...

This is the first book-length work to reflect the recent trend in social psychology away from artificial laboratory test results. It focuses direct...

Non-verbal communication - the eye movements, facial expressions, tone of voice, postures and gestures that we all use more or less consciously and...

What is happiness? Why are some people happier than others?This new edition of The Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date ...

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 practice ancient or modern is complete without reference to the work of sociologists on religious practice. The volumes in Th...

Because society is increasingly secular, it may seem irrelevant to consider the psychology of religion. But the diversity of our multi-ethnic and m...

No study of religious practice ancient or modern is complete without reference to the work of sociologists on religious practice. The volumes in Th...

Open Learning Units offer a very flexible approach to the teaching of psychology. They are designed to be more than sufficient for the purposes of ...

Open Learning Units offer a very flexible approach to the teaching of psychology. They are designed to be more than sufficient for the purposes of ...

Social Encounters is an approach to social psychology that is not what one might expect to find in textbooks on this subject. As a companion to Soc...

Non-verbal communication - the eye movements, facial expressions, tone of voice, postures and gestures that we all use more or less consciously and...

Originally published in 1957 this title was an up-to-date account of psychological research into human social behaviour of the time. There are chap...

Is psychology good for our health? What is the effect of class on social behaviour? In this comprehensive and fully up-to-date accoung of the psyc...