Social Cognitive Psychology

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

• ISBN13: 9780306454752
• ISBN10: 0306454750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Social Cognitive Psychology is the first text to provide comprehensive coverage of the field, including thorough discussions of its historical foundations cross-referenced with significant recent developments. Highlights include;the discipline's origins in pragmatic philosophy and the need for a second social psychology; the contributions of cognition, affect, and direct perception to social knowing, and the development of positive and negative self theories in social context. This valuable reference contains comprehensive chapter summaries, lists of key terms and concepts, and graphs of processing models from various theories.

Table of Contents

Part I. Historical Foundations
The Conception of a Pragmatic Social Cognitive Psychology	3	(24)
Linking Science to Practice	3	(7)
Early Social Cognitive Psychology: Dewey, Baldwin, and Mead	10	(11)
New Traditions Emerge	21	(6)
The Social Gestalt and Social Learning Traditions	27	(32)
Extending Perceptual Gestalt Psychology to Social Living	28	(12)
Learning: From Animal Lab to Home and Clinic	40	(19)
The Constructivist Tradition	59	(34)
Kelly's Personal Constructs	60	(4)
Constructing Symbolic Versions of Reality	64	(20)
Constructing Lives	84	(9)
The Information-Processing Tradition	93	(30)
Artificial and Pragmatic Intelligence	94	(6)
The Intelligent Interlocutor's Tool Kit	100	(7)
Reflexivity, Metacognition, and Bounded Self-Understanding	107	(8)
Conclusion	115	(8)
Evolving Models of the Social Knower	123	(32)
The Naive Scientist	123	(7)
The Cognitive Miser	130	(9)
The Motivated Tactician	139	(16)
Multiple Knowing Processes	155	(34)
Automatic and Controlled Processing	155	(12)
Adding Noncognitive to Cognitive Knowing	167	(22)
Stereotyping and Prejudice	189	(28)
Applying the New Model	189	(2)
Automatic Caricatures	191	(9)
Overcoming Stereotypes: Toward Individual Portraits	200	(17)
Part III. Self Processes
Negotiating Realities to Know Oneself	217	(30)
Self Theory as an Inherently Social Transaction	217	(2)
The Good-and-in-Control Prototype	219	(14)
The Negative Self Theory	233	(9)
The Interaction of Self Theory and Self-Knowledge	242	(1)
``Knowing'' Oneself as a Social Control	242	(5)
Goals in Personality, Emotion, and Subjective Well-Being	247	(30)
Goals and Self-Regulation	247	(3)
Types of Goals	250	(2)
Goals as Cognitive Motivators	252	(6)
Goals and Personality	258	(5)
Goals and Emotion	263	(3)
Goals and Subjective Well-Being	266	(11)
Self-Regulation: The Pursuit of Goals	277	(30)
Components of Self-Regulation	278	(1)
Control Theory: The Mechanistic Side of Human Self-Regulation	279	(9)
Goal Theory and Self-Efficacy Theory: The Human Side of Self-Regulation	288	(8)
New Developments in Self-Regulation	296	(11)
Part IV. Interpersonal Processes
Communication-Based Social Judgments and Relationship-Based Self Schemas	307	(32)
Communication and Conversations	308	(15)
Working Models of Self with Others	323	(16)
Close Relationships	339	(34)
Psychology's Long Courtship with Love	339	(2)
Relational Constructs and Methodologies	341	(4)
Relationship-Forming Processes	345	(4)
Romantic Relationships	349	(6)
Relationship-Maintaining Processes	355	(10)
Becoming Relational Experts	365	(8)
Part V. The Clinical Context
Social Clinical Psychology	373	(24)
A History of Social Clinical Psychology	374	(8)
Social Clinical Psychology Today	382	(15)
The Social Cognitive Construction of Difference and Disorder	397	(30)
Clinical Myths and Sequelae	399	(2)
Defining Normality and Abnormality	401	(7)
Categorical Thinking	408	(5)
Errors and Biases in Clinical Judgment	413	(10)
Conclusion	423	(4)
References	427	(64)
Index	491