Acknowledgments ixSection 1 - Social Cognition 11 Theorizing Social Psychology 32 Toward an Affect Arousal Reactance Theory: Reactance Theory Revisited 15Derek Chadee and Mary Chadee3 Inconsistency in Cognition: Cognitive Dissonance 60Cindy Harmon-Jones, Paul R. Nail, and Kurt A. Boniecki4 Attribution Theories How People Make Sense of Behavior 93Bertram F. Malle5 The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion: Thoughtful and Non-Thoughtful Social Influence 120Benjamin C. Wagner and Richard E. Petty6 Construal Level Theory: Psychological Distance and Construal 143Victor Grandison and Mary ChadeeSection 2 - Social Comparison 1637 Social Comparison: Theory, Research, and Applications 165Jan Crusius, Katja Corcoran, and Thomas Mussweiler8 Relative Deprivation and Cognate Theories: Making Sense of Irrational Behaviors 188Beverly G. Conrique and Faye J. CrosbySection 3 - Social Reinforcement 2159 Equity Theory: Evaluating Fairness 217Denise M. Polk10 Interdependence in Social Interaction 250Ann C. RumbleSection 4 - Self 27111 Self-Categorization and Social Identification: Making Sense of Us and Them 273Nils Karl Reimer, Katharina Schmid, Miles Hewstone, and Ananthi Al Ramiah12 From Culture to Cognition: Social Categorization Theory Reloaded 296Richard J. Crisp, Angela T. Maitner, and Andrew J. Marcinko13 Symbolic Interactionism: Early Philosophy to Models of Artificial Intelligence 317Andreas Schneider14 Impression Management in Everyday Life 350Meni Koslowsky, Shani Pindek, and Abira ReizerContributors 372Index 378
Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology and directs the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at the University of the West Indies. He is a Fullbright Research Scholar and has published several books in the area of social psychology. He has a robust research agenda with a focus on the psychology of fear of crime and has published in several international journals including Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, British Journal of Criminology, International Victimology, Crime Media and Culture and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories.