Social psychology :  new research / 
Ellen P. Lamont, editor. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>""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"" 
<br/><br/> 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? 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781617617577 1617617571 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020687611 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social psychology.<br/>PSYCHOLOGY--Social Psychology.<br/>Social psychology.<br/>Sozialpsychologie<br/>Sociale psychologie.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM1033 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302