1. Cognitive Dominance: The Centrality of Cognitive Explanations in Social Psychology -- 2. Science and Explanation: Distinguishing Between Commonsense Description and Scientific Explanation -- 3. Setting Limits: Improving the Existing Cognitive Models -- 4. Thinking Makes It So: The Presumption That Cognition Causes Everything -- 5. Unconscious Cognition: Elaboration of Ideas to Shore Up a Failing Paradigm -- 6. Unseating Cognition: Behaving Independently of Conscious Thought -- 7. Rationality: The Essential Human Characteristic? -- 8. The Politics of Cognition: On the Fatal Attractiveness of Cognitive Models -- 9. New Directions: Alternatives to a Monolithic Psychology of Cognition
Summary
In this provocative book, Christina Lee takes a consciously critical approach to the apparently unchallenged principle that conscious thought is the cause of all human behavior. Without becoming polemical or destructive, she reconsiders a wide range of issues in mainstream American and European social psychology. Suitable for an international audience, the book deals with issues in mainstream American and European social psychology. It assumes some familiarity with contemporary social and applied psychology, and would be appropriate as a text or supplementary reading for senior under
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-150) and indexes
