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" Constructing social psychology : "
William J. McGuire
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631125
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McGuire, William J., (William James),1925-2007
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Constructing social psychology : : creative and critical processes /\ William J. McGuire
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xv, 464 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0521641071
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: 9780521641074
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: 0521646723
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: 9780521646727
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-442) and index
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| Contents
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Learning my way -- Immunization against persuasion -- Attitude-change studies -- Integrative reviews of social influence processes -- Developing effective persuasion campaigns -- Thought systems: their content, structure, and functioning -- A topography of the phenomenal self -- Distinctiveness theory and the salience of self-characteristics -- Language and thought asymmetries -- Psychology and history -- Winters of our discontents: crises in social psychology -- A perspectivist epistemology: knowledge as misrepresentation
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"This collection of papers by William J. McGuire reports research on the phenomenal self, revealing how we perceive ourselves and other complex stimuli selectively in terms of distinctive or atypical features, often noticing what is missing rather than what is there. The content, structure, and processing of thought systems surrounding the self and other complex stimuli are shown to function by balancing logical consistency, realistic coping, and hedonic gratification. Attitude-change and social-influence processes are described, with particular attention given to the personality correlates of persuadability, how beliefs can be immunized against persuasion, how persuasive communications affect beliefs, and how people can be persuaded by Socratic questioning that does not give them new information but rather directs their attention to selected subsets of information they already have. Also reported are findings on language and thought, psychology and history, and techniques of creative thinking in psychology and other fields."--Jacket
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McGuire, William J., (William James),1925-2007
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Social psychology-- Research
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Social influence
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Attitude change
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Persuasion (Psychology)
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Thought and thinking
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Learning, Psychology of
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Self
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302
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HM251.M394 1999
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