Social Cognitive Psychology: History and Current Domains / Edition 1

by David F. Barone, James E. Maddux, C. R. Snyder

Overview

A pragmatic social cognitive psychology covers a lot of territory, mostly in personality and social psychology but also in clinical, counseling, and school psychologies. It spans a topic construed as an experimental study of mechanisms by its natural science wing and as a study of cultural interactions by its social science wing. To learn about it, one should visit laboratories, field study settings, and clinics, and one should read widely. If one adds the fourth dimen­ sion, time, one should visit the archives too. To survey such a diverse field, it is common to offer an edited book with a resulting loss in integration. This book is coauthored by a social personality psychologist with historical interests (DFB: Parts I, II, and IV) in collaboration with two social clinical psychologists (CRS and JEM: Parts III and V). We frequently cross-reference between chapters to aid integration without duplication. To achieve the kind of diversity our subject matter represents, we build each chapter anew to reflect the emphasis of its content area. Some chapters are more historical, some more theoretical, some more empirical, and some more applied. All the chapters reflect the following positions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306454752
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	06/30/1997
Series:	The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	494
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I. Historical Foundations.- 1 The Conception of a Pragmatic Social Cognitive Psychology.- 2 The Social Gestalt and Social Learning Traditions.- 3 The Constructivist Tradition.- 4 The Information-Processing Tradition.- II. Knowing Others.- 5 Evolving Models of the Social Knower.- 6 Multiple Knowing Processes.- 7 Stereotyping and Prejudice.- III. Self Processes.- 8 Negotiating Realities to Know Oneself.- 9 Goals in Personality, Emotion, and Subjective Well-Being.- 10 Self-Regulation: The Pursuit of Goals.- IV. Interpersonal Processes.- 11 Communication-Based Social Judgments and Relationship-Based Self Schemas.- 12 Close Relationships.- V. The Clinical Context.- 13 Social Clinical Psychology.- 14 The Social Cognitive Construction of Difference and Disorder.

Editorial Reviews

‘This book reminds us that texts and scholarly books can be highly informative and intellectually stimulating without sacrificing a good read.'
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, March 1998

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