Social psychology is a broad sub-discipline that is characterized by many different approaches. Despite the importance of their work for many other sciences, social psychologists have not always been successful in explaining what their field is to outsiders, or in articulating what basic principles guide their work.
Social psychology is a broad sub-discipline that is characterized by many different approaches. Despite the importance of their work for many other sc...
This book introduces all the major approaches to categorization in social psychology. Approaches covered include: biased stimulus processing, construct activation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation/contrast. Craig McGarty's wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social psychology also introduces several controversial and original ideas and the book is certain to engage the interest of readers in cognitive psychology, philosophy and linguistics as well as social psychology.
This book introduces all the major approaches to categorization in social psychology. Approaches covered include: biased stimulus processing, construc...
Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in cognitive and social psychology. In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct actviation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation/contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social...
Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in ...
Stereotyping is one of the most important issues in social psychology, but relatively little is known about how and why stereotypes form. This book explores the process of stereotype formation; the way people develop impressions and view social groups. Conventional approaches to stereotyping assume that stereotypes are based on erroneous and distorted processes, but the authors of this unique study have a very different view. They propose that stereotypes form to explain aspects of social groups and; in particular; to explain relationships between groups.
Stereotyping is one of the most important issues in social psychology, but relatively little is known about how and why stereotypes form. This book ex...
This textbook provides a clear introduction to the principal research methods and statistical procedures that underpin psychological research. Doing Psychology builds a carefully integrated understanding of the research process from the ground up, and addresses the many challenges confronted by first-time students of psychology.
This textbook provides a clear introduction to the principal research methods and statistical procedures that underpin psychological research. Doing P...
Activists are people who actively work for social or political causes and especially those who work to encourage other people to support those causes. Mass collective action is unlikely to occur without the involvement of activists. Including recent research from Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and studies of global online activists, this issue highlights multi-method approaches to studying activists and activism across a variety of different regional, issue-based, and socio-political contexts. In addition to contributing to ongoing theoretical and empirical discussions, the...
Activists are people who actively work for social or political causes and especially those who work to encourage other people to support those causes....
