Social Psychology, Psychology of Education, Learning, Research - Psychology, Success, Motivation & Self-Esteem, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous, Self-Improvement
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Overview
This collection of papers by William J. McGuire reports research on the phenomenal self, revealing how we perceive ourselves and other complex stimuli selectively in terms of distinctive or atypical features, often noticing what is missing rather than what is there. The content, structure, and processing of thought systems surrounding the self and other complex stimuli are shown to function by balancing logical consistency, realistic coping, and hedonic gratification. Attitude-change and social-influence processes are described, with particular attention given to the personality correlates of persuadability, how beliefs can be immunized against persuasion, how persuasive communications affect beliefs, and how people can be persuaded by Socratic questioning that does not give them new information but rather directs their attention to selected subsets of information they already have. Also reported are findings on language and thought, psychology and history, and techniques of creative thinking in psychology and other fields.Book Details
Published
April 13, 1999
Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, c1999.
Pages
464
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780521641074