The Social Psychology of Knowledge

This collection, published in 1988, brings an innovative perspective to research in social cognition.

Daniel Bar-Tal (Edited by), Arie W. Kruglanski (Edited by)

9780521127066, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 January 2010

412 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

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.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]