Categorization in social psychology
This is a wide-ranging and up-to-date introduction to all the major approaches to categorisation in social psychology including biased stimulus processing, construct activation self-categorisation, and social judgeability.
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- Full title :Categorization in social psychology / Craig McGarty.
Summary
This is a wide-ranging and up-to-date introduction to all the major approaches to categorisation in social psychology including biased stimulus processing, construct activation self-categorisation, and social judgeability.
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- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SAGE Pub
- Place of Publication:London, Thousand Oaks, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781848608955, 1848608950, 9781446218372, 1446218376, 0585345236, 9780585345239, 076195953X, 9780761959533
- oclc:ocm47011695
- LC Classification:BF445
- Dewey Decimal:302/.1
Table of Contents
Pt. 1. Cognitive and social psychological approaches to categorization -- Some starting assumptions: perceivers' perspectives and social consensus -- Categorization and cognition -- Introducing category function and structure -- Category learning, formation and use -- The categorization process in social psychology: biased stimulus and knowlwdge activation -- Categorization as meaning creation -- Self-categorization theory and some other developments -- Other sense-making approaches -- Contrasting perspectives on motivated relative perception -- Pt. 2. Some explorations in social categorization -- Group variability and consistency -- The constraints of the social context on categorization -- Categorization, covariation and causal explanation -- Conclusion: categorization as explanation.
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