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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This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both on the long- and the sho…
This interdisciplinary book explores design theories, combining research from a range of fields including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, industrial design, software engineering, environmental psychology, geography, anthropology, and sociology…
The work is divided into eight parts, covering such varied issues as stereotypes, image making, and organized intelligence. The study begins with an analysis of "the world outside and the pictures hi our heads," a leitmotif that starts with issues of censorship and privacy, spee…
"Why is it that people who smoke continue to do so knowing how bad it is for them? What drives people to committing adultery even though they inherently believe this is wrong? What's the outcome of this contradiction in the mind? Cognitive dissonance has been an important and i…
Cognitive dissonance has been an important and influential theory since Leon Festinger published his classic work in 1957. Here, Joel Cooper presents a comprehensive analysis of the state of dissonance theory, charting the progress of the theory and assessing its impact.
