Theories in Social Psychology

Derek Chadee is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, where he is also Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre. He is co-editor of Current Themes in Social Psychology (2006) with Jason Young, and has been published in numerous journals including the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, the British Journal of Criminology, International Victimization, and Media and Culture.

Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. SECTION 1 - Social Cognition. 1. Towards Freedom: Reactance Theory Revisited (Derek Chadee, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine). 2. Inconsistency in Cognition: Cognitive Dissonance (Paul R. Nail and Kurt A. Boniecki, University of Central Arkansas). 3. Attribution Theory: The Naive Scientist (Bertram F. Malle, Brown University). 4.The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion: A Primer (Benjamin C. Wagner and Richard E. Petty, Ohio State University). SECTION 2 - Social Comparison. 5. Social Comparison (Katja Corcoran, Jan Crusius and Thomas Mussweiler, University of Cologne). 6. Relative Deprivation (Jenny Carrillo, Pace University, Alexandra F. Corning, University of Notre Dame, Tara C. Dennehy, San Francisco State University and Faye J. Crosby, University of California, Santa Cruz). SECTION 3 - Social Reinforcement. 7. Evaluating Fairness: Critical Assessment of Equity Theory (Denise M. Polk, West Chester University of Pennsylvania). 8. Interdependence in Social Interaction (Ann C. Rumble, Ohio University-Chillicothe). SECTION 4 - Self. 9. Social Identity and Self Categorization (Katharina Schmid, Miles Hewstone, New College, University of Oxford and Ananthi Al Ramiah, University of Oxford). 10. Social Categorization (Richard J. Crisp, University of Kent and Angela T. Maitner, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates). Symbolic Interactionism (Andreas Schneider, Texas Tech University). 12. Impression Management (Mein Koslowsky and Shani Pindek, Bar-Ilan University). Index.