This collection, published in 1988, brings an innovative perspective to research in social cognition. It assembles fifteen chapters by many leading scholars in the field, which together provide an innovative and integrative analysis of the phenomenon of human knowledge. Three themes dominate the book. The first concerns the nature of knowledge and the way it differs from cognition. The second concerns the issue of generality versus specificity in conceptions of social knowledge. Finally, the third theme concerns the fundamental question of knowledge validity. The volume as a whole refreshingly broadens the scope of social psychological inquiry and opens up exciting areas of study.
List of contributors; Preface; 1. The social psychology of knowledge: its scope and meaning Daniel Bar-Tal and Arie W. Kruglanski; 2. From knowledge to cognition Carl F. Graumann; 3. Knowledge and social process Kenneth J. Gergen; 4. An ecological framework for establishing a dual-mode theory of social knowing Reuben M. Baron; 5. A new perspective for social psychology Daniel Bar-Tal and Yoram Bar-Tal; 6. Knowledge as a social psychological construct Arie W. Kruglanski; 7. Understanding social knowledge: if only the data could speak for themselves Robert S. Wyer, Jr. and Thomas K. Srull; 8. The concept of accuracy in social judgement Reid Hastie and Kenneth A. Rasinski; 9. On the use of statistical and nonstatistical knowledge: a problem-solving approach Yaacov Trope and Zvi Ginossar; 10. Dimensional versus information-processing approaches to social knowledge: the case of inconsistency management Patricia G. Devine and Thomas M. Ostrom; 11. Context-driven social judgement and memory: when 'behaviour engulfs the field' in reconstructive memory E. Tory Higgins and Charles Stangor; 12. Constructing the past: biases in personal memories Michael Ross and Cathy McFarland; 13. Attitudes: a new look at an old concept Mark P. Zanna and John K. Rempel; 14. Mental models of causal reasoning Joseph M. F. Jaspars (edited by Denis Hilton); 15. Causal attribution viewed from an information-processing perspective David L. Hamilton; Indexes.
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This collection, published in 1988, brings an innovative perspective to research in social cognition. It assembles fifteen chapters by many leading scholars in the field, which together provide an innovative and integrative analysis of the phenomenon of human knowledge. Three themes dominate the book. The first concerns the nature of knowledge and the way it differs from cognition. The second concerns the issue of generality versus specificity in conceptions of social knowledge. Finally, the third theme concerns ...