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41. Work and Unseen Chronic Illness

    Silent Voices

    By Margaret Vickers

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    In an increasingly ageing society, medicine, hygiene and nutrition have reduced the impact of acute and life-threatening illnesses. However, whilst we are living longer, the chance of developing or contracting a chronic illness is increasing.There are a growing number of working adults affected by...

    Published June 6th 2001 by Routledge
42. Cognitive Social Psychology

    The Princeton Symposium on the Legacy and Future of Social Cognition

    Edited by Gordon B. Moskowitz

    A comprehensive overview of the mechanisms involved in how cognitive processes determine thought and behavior toward the social world, Cognitive Social Psychology: *examines cognition as a motivated process wherein cognition and motivation are seen as intertwined; * reviews the latest research on...

    Published February 28th 2001 by Psychology Press
43. Social Cognition

    By Donald C. Pennington

    Series: Routledge Modular Psychology

    Social Cognition looks at the way in which humans interpret, analyse and remember information about the social world. Topics covered include: attribution, social schemas and social representations, prejudice and discrimination. Suitable for the AQA-A A2 and AQA-B AS level examintation, mnd students...

    Published August 30th 2000 by Routledge
44. Social Context and Cognitive Performance

    Towards a Social Psychology of Cognition

    By Pascal Huguet, Jean-Marc Monteil

    Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology

    Based on twenty years of research on the social regulation of academic performances, this book offers theoretical and empirical arguments in favour of the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. We all engage in social interactions, compare...

    Published June 16th 1999 by Psychology Press
45. The Development of Social Cognition

    Edited by Suzanne Hala

    Series: Studies in Developmental Psychology

    The Development of Social Cognition presents a lively, up-to-date examination of both the classical issues and contemporary understanding of theory and research in social cognitive development. The initial chapters highlight one of the central, theoretical tensions in the field, which is whether...

    Published November 29th 1998 by Psychology Press
46. Stereotype Activation and Inhibition

    Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XI

    Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

    Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

    The use of social sterotypes as a basis for judgments and behavioral decisions has been a major focus of social psychological theory and research since the field began. Although motivational and cognitive influences on stereotyping have been considered, these two general types of influence have...

    Published April 30th 1998 by Psychology Press
47. The Automaticity of Everyday Life

    Advances in Social Cognition, Volume X

    Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

    Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

    As Skinner argued so pointedly, the more we know about the situational causes of psychological phenomena, the less need we have for postulating internal conscious mediating processes to explain those phenomena. Now, as the purview of social psychology is precisely to discover those situational...

    Published February 28th 1997 by Psychology Press
48. Understanding Group Behavior

    Volume 1: Consensual Action By Small Groups; Volume 2: Small Group Processes and Interpersonal Relations

    Edited by Erich H. Witte, James H. Davis

    These books grew out of the perception that a number of important conceptual and theoretical advances in research on small group behavior had developed in recent years, but were scattered in rather fragmentary fashion across a diverse literature. Thus, it seemed useful to encourage the formulation...

    Published June 30th 1996 by Psychology Press
49. Ruminative Thoughts

    Advances in Social Cognition, Volume IX

    Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

    Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

    Until recently, most theory and research in social information processing has focused attention on the cognitive activity that underlies responses to stimulus information presented in the immediate situation being investigated. In contrast, people's thoughts outside the laboratory often concern...

    Published December 31st 1995 by Psychology Press
50. Handbook of Social Cognition, Second Edition

    Volume 1: Basic Processes Volume 2: Applications

    Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Thomas K. Srull

    This edition of the Handbook follows the first edition by 10 years. The earlier edition was a promissory note, presaging the directions in which the then-emerging field of social cognition was likely to move. The field was then in its infancy and the areas of research and theory that came to...

    Published April 30th 1994 by Psychology Press