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Social psychology : new research / Ellen P. Lamont, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Nova Science, c2009Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781617617577
  • 1617617571
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social psychologyDDC classification:
  • 302 22
LOC classification:
  • HM1033
Other classification:
  • 77.60
Online resources:
Contents:
""SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: NEW RESEARCH""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""COPING WITH GENETIC RISK: IMPOSING CONTROLON THE UNCERTAINTY OF RISK""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""LIVING WITH THE RISK OF HUNTINGTON DISEASE (HD)""; ""THE TRANSACTIONAL MODEL OF STRESS AND COPING""; ""COPING WITH HEALTH THREATS""; ""COPING WITH GENETIC RISK""; ""THE CURRENT RESEARCH""; ""Method""; ""Participant Recruitment""; ""Participants""; ""The Interviews""; ""Data Analysis -- Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)""; ""Results""; ""Primary Control Coping""; ""Summary: Primary Control Coping""; ""Secondary Control Coping""
""Summary: Secondary Control Coping""""Social Comparisons""; ""If I Can Be like Mom�a�?""; ""Summary: Social Comparisons""; ""A Final Note on Coping with Genetic Risk""; ""Discussion""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""SELF-HANDICAPPING AS AN ANTICIPATORY SELFPROTECTIONSTRATEGY""; ""SELF-HANDICAPPING""; ""Self-Handicapping as Anticipatory Excuse-Making""; ""MENTAL SIMULATION""; ""APPLYING A MENTAL SIMULATION MODEL TO SELF-HANDICAPPING""; ""Consequences of Self-Handicapping""; ""Attributions, Self-Esteem, and Self-Concepts of Ability""; ""Public Impressions.""
""Counterfactual Thoughts about Past Self-Handicaps.""""Anticipated Reactions to Self-Handicapping""; ""Do Individuals Plan Their Handicapping Strategies?""; ""IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS""; ""Effectiveness of Different Self-Handicapping Behaviors""; ""The Self-Deceptive Nature of Self-Handicapping""; ""Implications for Reducing Self-Handicapping Behavior""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""AUTOMATIC OPTIMISMTHE ROLE OF DESIRE IN JUDGMENTSABOUT THE LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE EVENTS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""The Desirability Bias in Judgment""
""A Dual Process Model of Likelihood Judgments""""Automatic Optimism""; ""Other Theoretical Accounts""; ""The Use of Base Rates in Judgments about the Likelihood of Life Events""; ""The Use of Base Rates in Judgments about the Likelihood of Chance Events""; ""The Source of the Desirability Bias""; ""Judgments for Self and Others""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Implications of Automatic Optimism""; ""Implications of Differences in How We Judge Ourselves and Other People""; ""The Future of the Desirability Bias""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""
""SOCIAL IDENTITIES, PREJUDICES AND SYMBOLICBOUNDARIES: CONTRIBUTIONS FROMSOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY""""SOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHOLOGYAND MEANING-MAKING PROCESSES: THE RELEVANCE OFSYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL""; ""Sociocultural Psychology: A Heterogeneous �a�?Theoretical Family�a�?""; ""Marking Differences Through Symbolic Boundaries in the Meaning-MakingProcesses3""; ""SOCIAL IDENTITIES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF �a�?AFFECTIVE BRIDGES�a�?BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIAL GROUPS""
Summary: Social ComparisonsA Final Note on Coping with Genetic Risk; Discussion; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; SELF-HANDICAPPING AS AN ANTICIPATORY SELFPROTECTIONSTRATEGY; SELF-HANDICAPPING; Self-Handicapping as Anticipatory Excuse-Making; MENTAL SIMULATION; APPLYING A MENTAL SIMULATION MODEL TO SELF-HANDICAPPING; Consequences of Self-Handicapping; Attributions, Self-Esteem, and Self-Concepts of Ability; Public Impressions.; Counterfactual Thoughts about Past Self-Handicaps.; Anticipated Reactions to Self-Handicapping; Do Individuals Plan Their Handicapping Strategies?
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""SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: NEW RESEARCH""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""COPING WITH GENETIC RISK: IMPOSING CONTROLON THE UNCERTAINTY OF RISK""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""LIVING WITH THE RISK OF HUNTINGTON DISEASE (HD)""; ""THE TRANSACTIONAL MODEL OF STRESS AND COPING""; ""COPING WITH HEALTH THREATS""; ""COPING WITH GENETIC RISK""; ""THE CURRENT RESEARCH""; ""Method""; ""Participant Recruitment""; ""Participants""; ""The Interviews""; ""Data Analysis -- Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)""; ""Results""; ""Primary Control Coping""; ""Summary: Primary Control Coping""; ""Secondary Control Coping""

""Summary: Secondary Control Coping""""Social Comparisons""; ""If I Can Be like Mom�a�?""; ""Summary: Social Comparisons""; ""A Final Note on Coping with Genetic Risk""; ""Discussion""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""SELF-HANDICAPPING AS AN ANTICIPATORY SELFPROTECTIONSTRATEGY""; ""SELF-HANDICAPPING""; ""Self-Handicapping as Anticipatory Excuse-Making""; ""MENTAL SIMULATION""; ""APPLYING A MENTAL SIMULATION MODEL TO SELF-HANDICAPPING""; ""Consequences of Self-Handicapping""; ""Attributions, Self-Esteem, and Self-Concepts of Ability""; ""Public Impressions.""

""Counterfactual Thoughts about Past Self-Handicaps.""""Anticipated Reactions to Self-Handicapping""; ""Do Individuals Plan Their Handicapping Strategies?""; ""IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS""; ""Effectiveness of Different Self-Handicapping Behaviors""; ""The Self-Deceptive Nature of Self-Handicapping""; ""Implications for Reducing Self-Handicapping Behavior""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""AUTOMATIC OPTIMISMTHE ROLE OF DESIRE IN JUDGMENTSABOUT THE LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE EVENTS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""The Desirability Bias in Judgment""

""A Dual Process Model of Likelihood Judgments""""Automatic Optimism""; ""Other Theoretical Accounts""; ""The Use of Base Rates in Judgments about the Likelihood of Life Events""; ""The Use of Base Rates in Judgments about the Likelihood of Chance Events""; ""The Source of the Desirability Bias""; ""Judgments for Self and Others""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Implications of Automatic Optimism""; ""Implications of Differences in How We Judge Ourselves and Other People""; ""The Future of the Desirability Bias""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""

""SOCIAL IDENTITIES, PREJUDICES AND SYMBOLICBOUNDARIES: CONTRIBUTIONS FROMSOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY""""SOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHOLOGYAND MEANING-MAKING PROCESSES: THE RELEVANCE OFSYMBOLIC BOUNDARIES AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL""; ""Sociocultural Psychology: A Heterogeneous �a�?Theoretical Family�a�?""; ""Marking Differences Through Symbolic Boundaries in the Meaning-MakingProcesses3""; ""SOCIAL IDENTITIES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF �a�?AFFECTIVE BRIDGES�a�?BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIAL GROUPS""

English.

Social ComparisonsA Final Note on Coping with Genetic Risk; Discussion; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; SELF-HANDICAPPING AS AN ANTICIPATORY SELFPROTECTIONSTRATEGY; SELF-HANDICAPPING; Self-Handicapping as Anticipatory Excuse-Making; MENTAL SIMULATION; APPLYING A MENTAL SIMULATION MODEL TO SELF-HANDICAPPING; Consequences of Self-Handicapping; Attributions, Self-Esteem, and Self-Concepts of Ability; Public Impressions.; Counterfactual Thoughts about Past Self-Handicaps.; Anticipated Reactions to Self-Handicapping; Do Individuals Plan Their Handicapping Strategies?

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