"Women, Science, and Technology" is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies, science studies more generally, women's studies, and studies in gender and education. This second edition fully updates its predecessor, dropping ten readings and replacing them with new ones that: extend content coverage into areas not originally included ...
This second volume in a two volume set, provides discussions of the role of information processing in specific areas, such as stereotyping, communication and persuasion, political judgement, close relationships, organizational, clinical and health psychology, and consumer behaviour.
This text examines the processing of information that people encounter in their everyday lives. It proposes a general theory about the way in which information acquired in everyday life is comprehended and represented in memory, and how it is later used as a basis for judgments and decisions. A major emphasis throughout is on the construction and ...
A survey of recent major developments within feminist theory and analysis, this collection captures a period of transition in women's scholarship, from the examination of confining categories and constructs to the self-reflective development of feminist theory. The fourteen essays in this volume provide critical application of the practices of ...
Presents a series of studies assessing whether people recruit specific exemplars or abstract trait summaries when making trait judgments about themselves. The limitations of social cognition paradigms, as methods for studying the representation of long-term social knowledge, are discussed.
This volume focuses on the type of cognitive activity which concerns life events that have either occurred in the past or are likely to occur in the future. It develops a theoretical formulation of ruminative thinking and the consequences for the performance of daily life activities.
Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and ...
The use of social stereotypes as a basis for judgements and behavioural decisions is a major focus of social psychology theory and research. This work's main article accounts for the processes that underlie both the activation of stereotypes and attempts to surpress their influence.
This volume presents the area of person impression formulation with a detailed conceptualization of person impressions and the processes that give rise to their construction. The theory attempts to explain where the different kinds of representations come from and how they relate to each other.
Americans are becoming more and more dissatisfied with their features, and many of these bothersome details are now treatable with cosmetic surgery. Consumers are more willing to explore available options to treating these problems, but they don't know which ones to trust. Written by a health and beauty journalist who has experienced cosmetic ...
If anyone deserves the title "father of social cognition," it is William J. McGuire who, along with his wife and colleague Claire V. McGuire, has written the target article for this volume. The culmination of many years of work, the article discusses their highly developed theory of human thought systems, and establishes many new directions for ...
"The Power of Collaborative Leadership: Lessons for the Learning Organization" helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing the lessons, insights, and best practices gained by two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. The book makes organizational learning principles and concepts more concrete ...
This one-of-a-kind guide discusses the search, evaluation, and proper use of the literature of emergency medicine, from textbooks to trials and qualitative studies to systematic reviews. It reveals how and where to find the quality information needed when seconds count. Fully exploring medical decision making using cognitive psychology, Bayesian ...
Emphasizing work that "frees our imaginations and allows us to conceive new theories, new language, and new questions," the collection seeks to establish the nature of Afro-American women's experiences while providing a theoretical framework for Black feminist thought. In essays that explore the intersection of work and family, socio-historical ...
This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume, which include theoretical approaches to cross-cultural research, the dimensions of national cultures and their ...
Through a deeper understanding of seeing, influencing, and creating joy at work, readers in any box on the organizational chart can take the next step towards freedom and joy by exercising their personal power.
During recent years the field of women's studies has emphasized the growth of new scholarship on women as scholars began to recover women's history, women's literature, and both qualitative and quantitative data about women's lives in disciplines as diverse as classics and psychology, religion and medicine, philosophy and sociology. As a result, ...
In Volume 3, Eliot R. Smith of Purdue University proposes that social cognition theorists have placed excessive emphasis on the role of schemata, prototypes, and various other types of abstractions. This has affected both the methodologies they use and the type of theories they construct. What has not been adequately appreciated is the storage and ...
The 12th volume of the Advances in Social Cognition series, this book presents and evaluates new theoretical advances in all areas of social cognition and information processing. An entire volume is devoted to each theory, offering evaluation from a variety of perspectives. The series reflects two major characteristics of social cognition: the ...
Presents a series of studies assessing whether people recruit specific exemplars or abstract trait summaries when making trait judgments about themselves. The limitations of social cognition paradigms, as methods for studying the representation of long-term social knowledge, are discussed.
The first comprehensive theoretical formulation of the way people use information they receive about their social environments to make judgments and behavioral decisions, this volume focuses on the cognitive processes that underlie the use of social information. These include initial interpretation, the representations used to make inferences, and ...
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