The Message of Social Psychology Perspectives on Mind in Society,9780631197799

The Message of Social Psychology Perspectives on Mind in Society

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631197799
ISBN10: 0631197796
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-01-23
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

In this book twenty-five of the world's most eminent social psychologists address what they see as the principal lessons to be learned from the study of social psychology. In doing this they provide their own provocative and original answers to the key questions for social psychology and other related social sciences, as well as a wealth of specific, up-to-date insights into the practical applications of social psychology, its key phenomena and theoretical ideas, the history of the field, and the practice conducting social psychological research.

Author Biography

Craig Mcgarty is Professor and Head of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He was previously Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research and Director of the Social Research Institute at Murdoch University and Head of the School of Psychology at The Australian National University. His books include Categorization in Social Psychology and Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, The Message of Social Psychology and Stereotypes as Explanations.

Table of Contents

List of figures
viii(1)
List of tables
ix(1)
List of contributors x(1)
The editors xi(1)
Preface xii
1 Introduction and a short history of social psychology
1(19)
Craig McGarty
S. Alexander Haslam
2 The theory of cognitive dissonance: The evolution and vicissitudes of an idea
20(16)
Elliot Aronson
3 Discursive, rhetorical, and ideological messages
36(18)
Michael Billig
4 On the social origins of human nature
54(9)
Marilynn B. Brewer
5 Organizing social-psychological explanations
63(14)
Willem Doise
6 Predicting, understanding, and changing socially relevant behaviors: Lessons learned
77(15)
Martin Fishbein
7 Let social psychology be faddish or, at least, heterogeneous
92(21)
Susan T. Fiske
Jacques-Philippe Leyens
8 Social psychology as social construction: The emerging vision
113(16)
Kenneth J. Gergen
9 Social life as rule-governed patterns of joint action
129(17)
Rom Harre
10 Beliefs, knowledge, and meaning from the perspective of the perceiver: Need for structure-order
146(20)
O. J. Harvey
11 Three lessons from social psychology: Multiple levels of analysis, methodological pluralism, and statistical sophistication
166(16)
Miles Hewstone
12 Biases in social cognition: "Aboutness" as a general principle
182(18)
E. Tory Higgins
13 Dynamic social impact: The societal consequences of human interaction
200(21)
Bibb Latane
14 Going beyond the banalities of bubbapsychology: A perspectivist social psychology
221(17)
William J. McGuire
15 Situations, belongingness, attitudes, and culture: Four lessons learned from social psychology
238(14)
Antony S. R. Manstead
16 Nonmaterial beliefs: Theory and research in cultural social psychology
252(16)
Albert Pepitone
17 The evolution of theory and research in social psychology: From single to multiple effect and process models of persuasion
268(23)
Richard E. Petty
18 The relevance of language for social psychology
291(14)
Gun R. Semin
19 Integrating the psychological and the social to understand human behavior
305(10)
Eliot R. Smith
Diane M. Mackie
20 "In the beginning there is society": Lessons from a sociological social psychology
315(13)
Sheldon Stryker
21 The social psychology of "Invictus": Conceptual and methodological approaches to indomitability
328(14)
Peter Suedfeld
22 A cross-cultural perspective on social psychology
342(13)
Harry C. Triandis
23 The socially structured mind
355(19)
John C. Turner
Penelope J. Oakes
Author index 374(12)
Subject index 386

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