Thursday 8 May 2008

Reviews: Social Psychology


simonbooth @ Flickr - Banksy's Kissing Policemen.
One of Banky's main tricks is to subvert deeply established stereotypes. In cognitive terms, we are extremely sensitive to this because it stands in such stark contrast to the stereotype - it is category-inconsistent.


Social

  • Macrae, C. N., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2000). Social cognition: Thinking categorically about others. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 93-120. (here)
  • Bargh, J.A., & Chartrand, T. L. (1999). The unbearable automaticity of being. American Psychologist, 54, 462-479 (here)
  • Bargh, J. A. (1999). The cognitive monster: The case against controllability of automatic stereotype effects. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual process theories in social psychology. New York: Guilford.
  • Wenzlaff, R.M. & Wegner, D.M. (2000). Thought suppression. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 59–91. (here)

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