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Cognitive Methods in Social Psychology
Author(s): Karl Christoph Klauer (Editor), Andreas Voss (Editor), Christoph Stahl (Editor)
- Publisher: Guilford Press
- Publication Date: 8 Jun. 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 449 pages
- ISBN-10: 1606230158
- ISBN-13: 9781606230152
Book Description
Researchers are increasingly applying cognitive methods to investigate social psychological phenomena. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to widely used social cognitive methods and offers practical, nuts-and-bolts guidance for implementing them. Leading authorities present attentional paradigms, priming paradigms, and response interference tasks; psychobiological approaches, such as neuroimaging; applications of mathematical models; and other methods. Detailed procedural information helps researchers and students take their first steps in using these state-of-the-art tools. Each chapter is illustrated with recent research examples and includes helpful recommendations for further reading.
This book will be important reading for researchers and graduate students in social psychology. It may also serve as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses in social cognition and psychology research methods.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A detailed and tightly-edited book. … Simply put, members of the discipline who ignore this intriguing book, its insights on theory development, and its methodological ‘how to’ focus, do so at their intellectual peril.” – Dana S. Dunn and Brittany Beard, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology ,Vol. 30, No. 10, December 2011
“To understand the cognitive processes involved in social phenomena, social psychologists routinely borrow methods from cognitive psychology. This book offers an excellent overview of these methods and ensures that readers can make good use of them. Each chapter covers one methodological approach, from its theoretical rationale and social psychological applications to the nuts and bolts of its implementation in the laboratory. The book is suitable for graduate-level research methods classes in psychology and is highly recommended for seasoned researchers as well.” – Norbert Schwarz, Charles Horton Cooley Collegiate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA
“Social psychologists have been waiting for a book like this for years. Finally, in one place, a practical how-to guide to the most widely used methods for conducting social-cognitive research. The contributors do a wonderful job of explaining both the best uses for these measures and the details of implementing them effectively. Every social psychological researcher will want to own this book as a reference.” – Jeffrey Sherman, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA
“A detailed and tightly-edited book. … Simply put, members of the discipline who ignore this intriguing book, its insights on theory development, and its methodological ‘how to’ focus, do so at their intellectual peril.” – Dana S. Dunn and Brittany Beard, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology ,Vol. 30, No. 10, December 2011
“Social psychologists have been waiting for a book like this for years. Finally, in one place, a practical how-to guide to the most widely used methods for conducting social-cognitive research. The contributors do a wonderful job of explaining both the best uses for these measures and the details of implementing them effectively. Every social psychological researcher will want to own this book as a reference.” – Jeffrey Sherman, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA
About the Author
Edited by Karl Christoph Klauer, PhD, Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Andreas Voss, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, and Christoph Stahl, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
