TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE CONFERENCE VOLUME

The Yin and Yang of Social Cognition: 

Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Thought Systems

 

(Edited by John T. Jost, Mahzarin R. Banaji, & Deborah Prentice)

 

 

I.  Introductory chapter

 

II.  Attitudes, persuasion, and social influence

 

Richard E. Petty, Zakary L. Tormala, & Derek Rucker, Ohio State University

An Attitude Strength Perspective on Resistance to Persuasion

 

Shelly Chaiken, New York University

Reception and Yielding in Social Cognition and Persuasion

 

Reid Hastie & Katherine A. Rawson, University of Colorado

Dynamic Networks and Other Thought Systems

 

Deborah Prentice, Princeton University

Values and Evaluations

 

III.  Information processing, affect, and behavior

 

John Cacioppo, University of Chicago

Asymmetries in Affect-Laden Information Processing

 

Robert S. Wyer, University of Illinois

The Cognitive Organization and Use of General Knowledge

 

Shulamith Kreitler, Tel-Aviv University

The Cognitive Guidance of Behavior

 

Mahzarin R. Banaji, Yale University

The Opposite of a Great Truth is also True: Reflections on Implicit Social Cognition

 

IV.  Language and the self-concept

 

Gün Semin, Free University of Amsterdam

The Language of Self and Others in Contexts

 

Curtis Hardin, UCLA 

On the Pursuit of Self-Contradictions in Self-Theory

 

V.  Stereotyping, prejudice, and intergroup relations in society

 

Willem Doise, University of Geneva

Societal Psychology: New Challenges and Lessons from the Past

 

György Hunyady, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest

Social Stereotypes and “Implicit Social Theory”

 

Alice Eagly, Northwestern University

The Common-Sense Psychology of Changing Social Groups

 

John T. Jost, Stanford University

A Perspectivist Looks at the Past, Present, and (Perhaps) the Future of Intergroup Relations: A Quixotic Defense of System Justification Theory

 

VI.  Political communication and mass media

 

David Sears, UCLA

Continuities and Contrasts in American Racial Politics

 

Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University

Engineering Consent: The Renaissance of Mass Communications Research in Politics

 

VII.  Theory and meta-theory in social psychological science

 

Phoebe C. Ellsworth, University of Michigan

Clapping with Both Hands: Numbers, People, and Simultaneous Hypotheses

 

Anthony G. Greenwald, University of Washington

The Resting Parrot, the Dessert Stomach, and Other Perfectly Defensible Theories

 

Norman H. Anderson, University of California, San Diego

Unified Theory

 

E. Tory Higgins, Columbia University

The Eighth Koan of Progress in Social Psychology:

A Variable Annointed as “Special” Will Demand Special Treatment

 

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