Coping with lack of control in a social world / edited by Marcin Bukowski, Immo Fritsche, Ana Guinote, and Mirosław Kofta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bukowski, Marcin, editor.

Fritsche, Immo, editor.

Guinote, Ana, 1963- editor.

Series:

Current issues in social psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Control (Psychology).

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

vii, 243 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World offers an integrated view of cutting-edge research on the effects of control deprivation on social cognition. The book integrates multi-method research demonstrating how various types of control deprivation, related not only to experimental settings but also to real-life situations of helplessness, can lead to a variety of cognitive and emotional coping strategies at the social cognitive level. The comprehensive analysis in this book tackles issues such as: Cognitive, emotional and socio-behavioral reactions to threats to personal control, How social factors aid in coping with a sense of lost or threatened control, Relating uncontrollability to powerlessness and intergroup processes, How lack-of-control experiences can influence basic and complex cognitive processes This book integrates various strands of research that have not yet been presented together in an innovative volume that addresses the issue of reactions to control loss in a socio-psychological context. Its focus on coping as an active way of confronting a sense of uncontrollability makes this a unique, and highly original, contribution to the field. Practicing psychologists and students of psychology will be particularly interested readers. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cognitive, emotional and socio-behavioral reactions to uncontrollability

From coping to helplessness : effects of control deprivation on cognitive and affective

Processes / Marcin Bukowski and Miroslaw Kofta

The motivation for control : loss of control promotes energy, effort, and action / atharine H. Greenaway, Michael C. Philipp and Katherine R. Storrs

"Ironic" effects of need for closure on closed-minded processing mode : the role of

Perceived control over reducing uncertainty / Magorzata Kossowska, Marcin Bukowski and Sindhuja Sankaran

Uncontrollability in the classroom : the intellectual helplessness perspective / Klara Rydzewska, Marzena Rusanowska, Izabela Krejtz and Grzegorz Sedek

Socially grounded responses to perceived lack of control : from compensation to active coping

Compensatory control theory and the psychological importance of perceiving order / Bastiaan T. Rutjens and Aaron C. Kay

Perceived uncontrollability as a coping resource : the control-serving function of enemies and uncertainty / Daniel Sullivan and Sheridan A. Stewart

Giving in and giving up : accommodation and fatalistic withdrawal as alternatives to primary control restoration / Joseph Hayes, Mike Prentice and Ian McGregor

Extending control perceptions to the social self : ingroups serve the restoration of control / Janine Stollberg, Immo Fritsche, Markus Barth and Philipp Jugert

Coping with identity threats to group agency as well as group value : explicit and implicit routes to resistance / Soledad de Lemus, Russell Spears, Jolien van Breen and Malka Telga

Uncontrollability, powerlessness and intergroup cognition

Thinking up and talking up : restoring control through mindreading / Susan T. Fiske, Dan L. Ames, Jillian K. Swencionis and Cydney H. Dupree

Accentuation of tending and befriending among the powerless / Ana Guinote and Joris Lammers

The emotional side of power(lessness) / Katerina Petkanopoulou, Guillermo B. Willis and Rosa Rodr¡guez-Bailcentn

Uncontrollability, reactance, and power : power as a resource to regain control after freedom threats / Christina Steindl, Eva Jonas and Sandra Sittenthaler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138957923

1138957925

9781138957930

1138957933

OCLC:

961249725