Categorization in Social Psychology

McGarty Craig

ISBN 10: 0761959548 / ISBN 13: 9780761959540

Published by London: Sage, 1999, London, 1999

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Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Categorization in Social Psychology
• Publisher: London: Sage, 1999, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761959548
• ISBN 13: 9780761959540
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Synopsis

Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in cognitive and social psychology.

In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct actviation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation/contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social psychology.

About the Author

Craig McGarty is Professor of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He received his undergraduate training in psychology at the University of Adelaide and his PhD from Macquarie University in 1991 (where he was a tutor from 1985 until 1989). He spent 1990 as a lecturer in social psychology/social interaction at the University of Western Sydney and moved in 1991 to the Australian National University as a research associate. He was Reader and Head of the School of Psychology before moving to Murdoch University in Western Australia as the Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research and then Director of the Social Research Institute. He has worked on a wide range of topics in experimental social psychology, and his current research includes a social audit of the aspirations and solutions of a remote Indigenous community and studies of the reconciliation process in post-genocide Rwanda. His books include Stereotypes as Explanations (with Vincent Yzerbyt and Russell Spears, 2002) and Categorization and Social Psychology (1999).