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Cognitive Consistency: A Fundamental Principle in Social Cognition
Author(s): Bertram Gawronski (Editor), Fritz Strack
- Publisher: The Guilford Press
- Publication Date: January 17, 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 494 pages
- ISBN-10: 1609189469
- ISBN-13: 9781609189464
Book Description
This volume provides an overview of recent research on the nature, causes, and consequences of cognitive consistency. In 21 chapters, leading scholars address the pivotal role of consistency principles at various levels of social information processing, ranging from micro-level to macro-level processes. The book’s scope encompasses mental representation, processing fluency and motivational fit, implicit social cognition, thinking and reasoning, decision making and choice, and interpersonal processes. Key findings, emerging themes, and current directions in the field are explored, and important questions for future research identified.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“From stellar editors and contributors, this superb volume draws attention to the significance of cognitive consistency as a basic principle of social information processing. Chapters cover a remarkable range: the significance of cognitive consistency for neural processes; connectionist models; different types of cognitive, motivational, implicit, and interpersonal processes; and connections to thinking, reasoning, decision making, and choice. This book is an absolute ‘must’ for researchers and doctoral students in psychology. It presents an intriguing, inviting, integrated perspective that bridges traditional subdisciplinary boundaries in psychology.”–Gün R. Semin, PhD, Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
“Cognitive consistency has been an implicit if not explicit construct in social psychology for over 60 years, cutting across both motivated reasoning and automaticity and playing a role in all phases of information processing, including attention and comprehension, information retrieval, inference and judgment, and behavioral decision making. This volume–edited and written by well-known psychologists with perspectives ranging from cognitive neuroscience to interpersonal relations–testifies to the breadth of issues to which consistency principles are potentially relevant. In combination, the chapters provide a valuable resource for cognitive and social psychologists and graduate students.”–Robert S. Wyer, Jr., PhD, Department of Marketing, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Gawronski and Strack recruited a host of social psychologists whose research interests touch upon people’s search for consistency and in doing so explore topics well beyond the traditional domain of attitude change….Practicing researchers will want to read this book as will practitioners who can apply and build on its observations and insights. Graduate students in social psychology may find opportunity herein to draw on consistency theories to enliven their own research agendas.”
― Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology Published On: 2012-09-01“Covers a wide range of topics in cognitive consistency, making it a useful book for graduate students in social psychology.”
― Doody’s Reviews Published On: 2012-12-01About the Author
Fritz Strack, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. His research focuses on reflective and impulsive processes underlying social behavior. Dr. Strack’s work has been recognized with the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Thomas M. Ostrom Award from the Person Memory Interest Group for outstanding lifetime contributions to theory and research in the field of social cognition, and the Wilhelm Wundt Medal from the German Psychological Society for outstanding achievements in the field of psychology.
