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Springer Social Cognitive Psychology History And Current Domains 1997 Edition by David F. Barone James E. Maddux C. R. Snyder
Social Cognitive Psychology is the first text to provide comprehensive coverage of the field including thorough discussions of its historical foundations cross-referenced with significant recent developments. Highlights include ;the discipline's origins in pragmatic philosophy and the need for a second social psychology; the contributions of cognition affect and direct perception to social knowing and the development of positive and negative self theories in social context.This valuable reference contains comprehensive chapter summaries lists of key terms and concepts and graphs of processing models from various theories. Table of contents : Historical Foundations: The Conception of a Pragmatic Social Cognitive Psychology. The Social Gestalt and Social Learning Traditions. The Constructivist Tradition. The Information Processing Tradition. Knowing Others: Evolving Models of the Social Knower. Multiple Knowing Processes. Stereotyping and Prejudice. Self Processes: Negotiating Realities to Know Oneself. Goals in Personality Emotion and Subjective Well-Being. Self-Regulation. Interpersonal Processes: Communication-Based Social Judgements and Relationship-Based Self-Schemas. Close Relationships. The Clinical Context: Social Clinical Psychology. The Social Cognitive Construction of Difference and Disorder. Index.