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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGarty, Craig
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Pub., 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.