The Message of Social Psychology Perspectives

In this book twenty-five of the world's most eminent social psychologists address what they see as the principal lessons to be learned from the study of social psychology. In doing this they provide their own provocative and original answers to the key questions for social psychology and other related social sciences, as well as a wealth of specific, up-to-date insights into the practical applications of social psychology, its key phenomena and theoretical ideas, the history of the field, and the practice conducting social psychological research.

Craig Mcgarty is Professor and Head of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He was previously Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research and Director of the Social Research Institute at Murdoch University and Head of the School of Psychology at The Australian National University. His books include Categorization in Social Psychology and Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, The Message of Social Psychology and Stereotypes as Explanations.

List of figures

viii

(1)

List of tables

ix

(1)

List of contributors

x

(1)

The editors

xi

(1)

Preface

xii

1 Introduction and a short history of social psychology

1

(19)

Craig McGarty

S. Alexander Haslam

2 The theory of cognitive dissonance: The evolution and vicissitudes of an idea

20

(16)

Elliot Aronson

3 Discursive, rhetorical, and ideological messages

36

(18)

Michael Billig

4 On the social origins of human nature

54

(9)

Marilynn B. Brewer

5 Organizing social-psychological explanations

63

(14)

Willem Doise

6 Predicting, understanding, and changing socially relevant behaviors: Lessons learned

77

(15)

Martin Fishbein

7 Let social psychology be faddish or, at least, heterogeneous

92

(21)

Susan T. Fiske

Jacques-Philippe Leyens

8 Social psychology as social construction: The emerging vision

113

(16)

Kenneth J. Gergen

9 Social life as rule-governed patterns of joint action

129

(17)

Rom Harre

10 Beliefs, knowledge, and meaning from the perspective of the perceiver: Need for structure-order

146

(20)

O. J. Harvey

11 Three lessons from social psychology: Multiple levels of analysis, methodological pluralism, and statistical sophistication

166

(16)

Miles Hewstone

12 Biases in social cognition: "Aboutness" as a general principle

182

(18)

E. Tory Higgins

13 Dynamic social impact: The societal consequences of human interaction

200

(21)

Bibb Latane

14 Going beyond the banalities of bubbapsychology: A perspectivist social psychology

221

(17)

William J. McGuire

15 Situations, belongingness, attitudes, and culture: Four lessons learned from social psychology

238

(14)

Antony S. R. Manstead

16 Nonmaterial beliefs: Theory and research in cultural social psychology

252

(16)

Albert Pepitone

17 The evolution of theory and research in social psychology: From single to multiple effect and process models of persuasion

268

(23)

Richard E. Petty

18 The relevance of language for social psychology

291

(14)

Gun R. Semin

19 Integrating the psychological and the social to understand human behavior

305

(10)

Eliot R. Smith

Diane M. Mackie

20 "In the beginning there is society": Lessons from a sociological social psychology

315

(13)

Sheldon Stryker

21 The social psychology of "Invictus": Conceptual and methodological approaches to indomitability

328

(14)

Peter Suedfeld

22 A cross-cultural perspective on social psychology

342

(13)

Harry C. Triandis

23 The socially structured mind

355

(19)

John C. Turner

Penelope J. Oakes

Author index

374

(12)

Subject index

386

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