Social Cognition by Martha Augoustinos
`Throughout, the text is written in a lively, engaging style with key points illustrated by everyday examples... entertaining to the reader.... The book will be clearly useful as an undergraduate text to introduce students to the range of North American and European research in the social cognitive tradition. No other single text currently achieves this aim... for those not familiar with social cognition research, we would recommend it as a good, balanced overview and introduction to the broad range of research and theories used in this area′ - Psychology and Health This comprehensive introduction to social cognition is the first to integrate successfully the distinct traditions that have grown up on different sides of the Atlantic over the past 20 years. It guides readers through the bewildering and sometimes contradictory array of theories, methodologies and applications, demonstrating how fruitfully the contrasting styles can cross-fertilize. The authors discuss work on attitudes, social schemas and attributions alongside that on social identity and social representations, while pointing out important linkages across these domains. Taking the best of the North American cognitivist and individualist social psychology, they integrate it with the broader framework of European research on identity and ideology. They also assess the more recent discursive and postmodern challenges to orthodox social cognition models.
`Augoustinos and Walker point out the limitations of an individual level approach to social cognition and set out to expand it by integrating it with the European approach that emphasizes the roles of group membership and socially shared beliefs in shaping social cognition.. I found the book to be informative and useful; it has, for example, provided me with several new ideas for revising the social cognition segment of my introductory social psychology course. Professionals in others areas of psychology that draw on the social cognitive perspective, such as clinical, health and sports psychology, will find it equally useful. As a textbook, it makes an excellent [contribution] by providing a critical viewpoint on some aspects of traditional social cognition theory and research, by introducing new perspectives on social cognition, and by demonstrating the integration of the individual- and group-level approaches to studying social cognition′ - Contemporary Psychology
`Throughout, the text is written in a lively, engaging style with key points illustrated by everyday examples... entertaining to the reader... The book will be clearly useful as an undergraduate text to introduce students to the range of North American and European research in the social cognitive tradition. No other single text currently achieves this aim... for those not familiar with social cognition research, we would recommend it as a good, balanced overview and introduction to the broad range of research and theories used in this area′ - Psychology and Health
Martha Augoustinos is Professor of Psychology at the University of Adelaide and Co-Director of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender. Iain Walker is a Senior Research Scientist with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, where he leads the Social & Behavioural Sciences Group. He is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Australia, and 3 other Australian universities.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803989900 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803989903 |
| Titel | Social Cognition |
| Autor | Martha Augoustinos |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1995-07-05 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
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