Explanations Accounts and Illusions

图书标准信息

• 作者 John McClure 著
• 出版社 Cambridge University Press
• 出版时间 2007-01
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780521047500
• 定价 393.20元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 356页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

Thisbookprovidesalucidsurveyofthemajorviewpointsinsocialpsychologyconcerningpeople'sself-awareness(orlackofit),theirexplanationsoftheirownactions,andtheircognitiveillusionsandself-misunderstandings.Inthisreadablebutscholarlyreview,JohnMcClureexaminesthemajorapproachestosocialcognitiondevelopedinAmericaandEurope,includingthemoreorthodoxmodelswhichdrawoninformation-processingandbehaviouralconcepts;andtheinnovativeapproacheswhichdrawonhermeneuticmodels,discourseanalysisand,inparticular,criticaltheory.Thebookprovidesaclearpictureofwhatsocialpsychologyshowsaboutpeople'sawarenessofthecausesoftheirownactions.Italsodescribesthenatureofthemisperceptionsandcognitivedistortionsthatunderliepsychologicaldisorders,andthatcontributetopeople'sfailuretoachievetheiraims.

【目录】

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Paradigms of explanation

3. Consciousness and illusions: critical perspectives

4. Self-perception and social cognition

5. New accounts: ethogenics and hermeneutics

6. Self-presentation and discourse analysis

7. Illusions, control and helplessness

8. Phenomenological, cognitive and linguistic therapies

9. Discounting and dialectics: contradictions in explanations

10. Conclusions

References

Index of names

Index of subjects.