Perspectivism in Social Psychology

by Jost, John T.; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Prentice, Deborah A.; Mcguire, William James

• ISBN13: 9781591470229
• ISBN10: 1591470226
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

Following William J. McGuire's model as a theorist and researcher, this resource brings together psychologists from Europe, Israel and North America offering new and emerging agendas for social cognition, under the common theme of perspectivist methodology and the study of thought systems. Additionally, the book offers a historical approach to the study of stereotyping and intergroup relations and uses language as an indicator of social psychological processes.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introductory Material	p. 1
Perspectivist Social Psychology: A Work in Progress	p. 3
The Perspectivist in Historical and Scientific Perspective: McGuire's Role in Twentieth-Century Social Psychology	p. 11
A Life in Psychology: The Human Element	p. 25
Attitudes, Persuasion, and Social Influence	p. 35
Resisting Persuasion by Counterarguing: An Attitude Strength Perspective	p. 37
Dynamic Networks and Other Though Systems: Remote Ramifications of a Focused Persuasive Communication	p. 53
Values and Evaluations	p. 69
Information Processing, Affect, and Behavior	p. 83
Asymmetries in Affect-Laden Information Processing	p. 85
The Cognitive Organization and Use of General Knowledge	p. 97
The Cognitive Guidance of Behavior	p. 113
The Opposite of a Great Truth Is Also True: Homage to Koan #7	p. 127
Language and the Self-Concept	p. 141
The Self-in-Talk: Toward an Analysis of Interpersonal Language and Its Use	p. 143
(Self-)Conceptions as Social Actions	p. 161
Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Intergroup Relations in Society	p. 173
Vicissitudes of Societal Psychology	p. 175
Social Stereotypes and "Implicit Social Theory"	p. 187
The Commonsense Psychology of Changing Social Groups	p. 201
A Perspectivist Looks at the Past, Present, and (Perhaps) the Future of Intergroup Relations: A Quixotic Defense of System Justification Theory	p. 215
Political Communication and Mass Media	p. 231
Continuities and Contrasts in American Racial Politics	p. 233
Engineering Consent: The Renaissance of Mass Communications Research in Politics	p. 247
Theory and Metatheory in Social Psychological Science	p. 259
Clapping With Both Hands: Numbers, People, and Simultaneous Hypotheses	p. 261
The Resting Parrot, the Dessert Stomach, and Other Perfectly Defensible Theories	p. 275
Unified Theory	p. 287
The Eighth Koan of Progress in Social Psychology: A Variable Anointed as "Special" Will Demand Special Treatment	p. 305
Perspectivist Worksheets for Generating a Program of Research	p. 319
Index	p. 333
About the Editors	p. 337
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