About the Book
The third volume of the Handbook of Motivation and Cognition, like its acclaimed predecessors, presents timely, original work on the interface of motivation and cognition. Rather than looking at the self, affect, and goals as primarily intrapersonal variables, however, Volume 3 shifts its concern to the role of motivation and cognition in interpersonal and intergroup behavior. Reflecting an increasing awareness of the impact of intergroup strife in contemporary life, leading researchers and theorists of social relations discuss topics including how we use others to further evaluate the self; how the self affects our judgment of others; the role of sterotyping and prejudices; and how we evaluate and interact with ingroups and outgroups.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Self-Evaluation: The Looking-Glass Self. Taylor, Wayment, Carrillo, Social Comparison, Self-Regulation, and Motivation. Hardin, Higgins, Shared Reality: How Social Verification Makes the Subjective Objective. Olson, Hafer, Affect, Motivation, and Cognition in Relative-Deprivation Research. Schlenker, Britt, Pennington, Impression Regulation and Management: Highlights of a Theory of Self-Identification. Weary, Edwards, Causal-Uncertainty Beliefs and Related Goal Structures. Haslam, Oakes, Turner, McGarty, Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and the Perceived Homogeneity of Ingroups and Outgroups: The Interaction between Social Motivation and Cognition. Part II: Evaluation of Others: Perceiving Through Role-Colored Lenses. Neuberg, Social Motives and Expectancy-Tinged Social Interactions. Andersen, Glassman, Responding to Significant Others When They Are Not There: Effects of Interpersonal Inference, Motivation, and Affect. Fiske, Morling, Stereotyping as a Function of Personal Control Motives and Capacity Constraints: The Odd Couple of Power and Anxiety. Brewer, Harasty, Seeing Groups as Entities: The Role of Perceiver Motivation. Mackie, Queller, Stroessner, Hamilton, Making Stereotypes Better or Worse: Multiple Roles for Positive Affect in Group Impressions. Wilder, Simon, Incidental and Integral Affect as Triggers of Stereotyping. Part III: Group Dynamics: Getting to Know You.Devine, Evett, Vasquez-Suson, Exploring the Interpersonal Dynamics of Intergroup Contact. Kruglanski, A Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds: Need-for-Closure Effects on Social Cognition and Interaction. Thompson, Holmes, Ambivalence in Close Relationships: Conflicted Cognitions as a Catalyst for Change. Levine, Bogart, Zdaniuk, Impact of Anticipated Group Membership on Cognition. Esses, Seligman, The Individual Group Distinction in Assessments of Strategies to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination: The Case of Affirmative Action. Huber, Sorrentino, Uncertainty in Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations: An Individual-Differences Perspective.
About the Author :
Richard Sorrentino, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his M.A. degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. In addition to coediting all three volumes of the Handbook of Motivation and Cognition with E. Tory Higgins, he has coedited two other books, has published articles in personality, social, and educational psychology, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals.
Review :
A detailed and sophisticated account of how individuals negotiate their way through the social environment....Providing thoughtful, state-of-the-art presentations by some of the field's most generative contributors, the volume offers impressive evidence that cutting-edge social psychology is returning to its social roots. - Harry T. Reis, PhD
