Categorization in Social Psychology [Paperback]

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.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.PART ONE: COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CATEGORIZATION
Some Starting Assumptions
Perceivers' Perspectives and Social Consensus
Categorization and Cognition I
Introducing Category Function and Structure
Categorizationand Cognition II
Category Learning, Formation and Use
The Categorization Process in Social Psychology I
Biased Stimulus Processing and Knowledge Activation
Categorization as Meaning Creation I
Self-Categorization Theory and Some Other Developments
Categorization as Meaning Creation II
Other Senselƒ_