The Social Psychology of Power
ISBN: 9781606236192 | 1606236199
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Book
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 4/27/2010
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Addressing an issue of central concern in social life, this authoritative book examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act.
Univ. College London, UK. Examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act. Topics include what sorts of people are given power, the impact of power on physical health, and how power imbalances are legitimated or contested. For social psychologists and researchers.
Univ. College London, UK. Examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act. Topics include what sorts of people are given power, the impact of power on physical health, and how power imbalances are legitimated or contested. For social psychologists and researchers.
| Introduction: Power in Social Psychology | p. 1 |
| Concepts, Theoretical Perspectives, and Basic Mechanisms | |
| Concepts and Historical Perspectives on Power | p. 19 |
| The Emergence of Simple and Complex Power Structures through Social Niche Construction | p. 46 |
| Dominance and Health: The Role of Social Rank in Physiology and Illness | p. 87 |
| Power in the Person: Exploring the Motivational Underground of Power | p. 113... MORE |
| The Situated Focus Theory of Power | p. 141 |
| Power in Interaction: The Negotiation of a Shared Reality | |
| Paradoxes of Power: Dynamics of the Acquisition, Experience, and Social Regulation of Social Power | p. 177 |
| Paradoxical Power Manifestations: Power Assertion by the Subjectively Powerless | p. 209 |
| Power and Social Perception | p. 231 |
| Legitimacy, Social Identity, and Power | p. 251 |
| Power as Charismatic Leadership: A Significant Opportunity (and a Modest Proposal) for Social Psychology Research | p. 284 |
| Power in Intergroup Relations | |
| The System Justification Motive and the Maintenance of Social Power | p. 313 |
| Power and Racism | p. 341 |
| Power and Sexism | p. 363 |
| Immigration and Power | p. 381 |
| Social Class and Power | p. 408 |
| Power: New Understandings and Future Directions | p. 428 |
| Index | p. 455 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Ana Guinote, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at University College London, United Kingdom. Her research and publications focus on power, status, and minorities---in particular, how social asymmetries affect basic and high-order cognition, and how this in turn affects goal pursuit, social judgments, behavior variability, and responsiveness to situational affordances. Dr. Guinote is an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and serves on the Steering Committee of the European Social Cognition Network.
Theresa K. Vescio, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research and publications address the relation between power and the expression of sexism, racism, ageism, and heterosexism. Dr. Vescio is a recipient of the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, awarded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9 of the American Psychological Association. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals in the field.
Theresa K. Vescio, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research and publications address the relation between power and the expression of sexism, racism, ageism, and heterosexism. Dr. Vescio is a recipient of the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, awarded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9 of the American Psychological Association. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals in the field.
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