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Categorization in Social Psychology
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Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in cognitive and social psychology.
In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct actviation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation/contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social psychology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I - Cognitive and Social Psychological Approaches to Categorization
- Chapter 1 - Some Starting Assumptions: Perceivers' Perspectives and Social Consensus
- Chapter 2 - Categorization and Cognition I: Introducing Category Function and Structure
- Chapter 3 - Categorization and Cognition II: Category Learning, Formation and Use
- Chapter 4 - The Categorization Process in Social Psychology: Biased Stimulus Processing and Knowledge Activation
- Chapter 5 - Categorization as Meaning Creation I: Self-Categorization Theory and some Other Developments
- Chapter 6 - Categorization as Meaning Creation II: Other Sense-Making Approaches
- Chapter 7 - Contrasting Perspectives on Motivated Relative Perception
- Part II - Some Explorations in Social Categorization
- Chapter 8 - Group Variability and Consistency
- Chapter 9 - The Constraints of the Social Context on Categorization
- Chapter 10 - Categorization, Covariation and Causal Explanation
- Chapter 11 - Conclusion: Categorization as Explanation
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index