Categorization in Social Psychology

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ISBN: 9780761959540 | 0761959548
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Copyright: 12/7/1999

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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 psychology.

Preface

PART I COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CATEGORIZATION

Some Starting Assumptions: Perceivers' Perspectives and Social Consensus

(21)

Stating the problem

(6)

The mind is an interpretive perspective-based system

(4)

Social consensus and coordinated action

(6)

Fluidity of psychological constructs

(3)

Conscious and non-conscious processes

(2)

How to approach this book

(1)

Categorization and Cognition I: Introducing Category Function and Structure

(24)

The functions of categorization

(8)

Category structure and representation

(15)

Conclusion

(1)

Categorization and Cognition II: Category Learning, Formation and Use

(36)

Similarity-based approaches to category learning

(5)

Theory-based approaches to category learning and use

(21)

Categorization effects

(10)

Conclusion

(1)

The Categorization Process in Social Psychology: Biased Stimulus Processing and Knowledge Activation

(24)

Categorization as biased stimulus processing

(12)

Categorization as the activation of stored knowledge

(8)

Affective, evaluative and motivational influences on categorization

102

(3)

Combining contemporary views: selective attention drives categorization and cognition

105

(1)

Categorization as Meaning Creation I: Self-Categorization Theory and some Other Developments

106

(21)

The social categorization tradition

106

(4)

Self-categorization and categorization

110

(17)

Appendix: other equations for meta-contrast

124

(3)

Categorization as Meaning Creation II: Other Sense-Making Approaches

127

(10)

Coherence-based approaches

127

(2)

Explanation-based approaches

129

(4)

Assimilation and contrast approaches

133

(4)

Contrasting Perspectives on Motivated Relative Perception

137

(18)

How do limits on capacity affect categorization? versus

Do limits on capacity have any effect on categorization?

137

(8)

Does categorization lead to error and biases? versus

Do the notions of error and bias have any role to play in understanding cognition?

145

(5)

How are previously stored categories activated? versus

Are there such things as stored categories?

150

(3)

Conclusion: the relativity of perception

153

(2)

PART II SOME EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION

Group Variability and Consistency

155

(35)

Group variability judgements

156

(11)

Illusory correlation

167

(7)

Entitativity and relative group size

174

(8)

Other approaches to entitativity

182

(5)

Reconciliation: variability, relative group size and entitativity

187

(3)

The Constraints of the Social Context on Categorization

190

(20)

Distinguishing social categorization from social identification and social self-esteem

190

(6)

Social influences on the categorization process

196

(14)

Conclusion

209

(1)

Categorization, Covariation and Causal Explanation

210

(34)

Hierarchies and overlap

210

(10)

Categorization and covariation

220

(12)

Modelling covariation and causal explanation

232

(12)

Conclusion

239

(5)

Conclusion: Categorization as Explanation

244

(20)

Background knowledge and perceived equivalence

246

(4)

The longevity of categorical constructs

250

(1)

Categorization and error revisited

251

(13)

Final note

262

(2)

References

264

(23)

Author Index

287

(2)

Subject Index

289

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