Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge
Subtitle: Cognitive and Motivational Bases
By: by Arie W. Kruglanski
Series: Perspectives in Social Psychology; Perspectives in social psychology
Publisher: Springer US; Imprint; Springer
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781489909244; 9781489909268
Subjects: Consciousness; Philosophy (General); Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology; Cognitive Psychology
Table of contents: title: 1. The Lay Epistemic Framework: Its History and Scope; title: 2. Knowing All: A Theory of Lay Epistemics; title: 3. Empirical Research in the Lay Epistemic Framework; title: 4. Unique and Nonunique Aspects of Attributions; title: 5. A Bridge to Consistency Theories; title: 6. Attitudes as Knowledge Structures; title: 7. Further Domains of Application: Social Comparison Processes and Minority-Influence Phenomena; title: 8. The Issue of Accuracy in Social Perception and Cognition; title: 9. Knowing How to Cure: Implications for Cognitive Therapy; title: 10. The Social Psychology of Science: On the Lay Epistemic Underpinnings of Research Methodology; title: References; title: Author Index.