Fiske provides a highly readable and engaging narrative flow based on the five core social motives repeatedly identified by personality and social psychologists: Belonging, Understanding, Controlling, Enhancing Self, and Trusting. Throughout, the book integrates material showing the field’s relevance to human problems and incorporates motivation, social evolution, and culture, not as after-thoughts, but as intrinsic features of the text.

You can also supplement the text with the other titles in Wiley’s social psychology series: The Selected Works of Edward E. Jones edited by Daniel T. Gilbert and The Selected Works of R.B. Zajonc by R.B. Zajonc.