Categorization in social psychology / Craig McGarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGarty, Craig.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Categorization (Psychology).

Social perception.

Physical Description:

xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1999.

Summary:

Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major new 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 activiation, 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.

Craig McGarty introduces numerous controversial and original ideas and his book is certain to engage the interest of readers in cognitibve psychology, philosophy and linguistics as well as social psychology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [264]285) and indexes.

ISBN:

076195953X

0761959548

OCLC:

45247634