1st Edition
Alternatives to Cognition A New Look at Explaining Human Social Behavior
By Christina Lee
Copyright 1998
172 Pages
by
Psychology Press
172 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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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... Read more
Contents: Preface. Cognitive Dominance: The Centrality of Cognitive Explanations in Social Psychology. Science and Explanation: Distinguishing Between Commonsense Description and Scientific Explanation. Setting Limits: Improving the Existing Cognitive Models. Thinking Makes It So: The Presumption That Cognition Causes Everything. Unconscious Cognition: Elaboration of Ideas to Shore Up a Failing Paradigm. Unseating Cognition: Behaving Independently of Conscious Thought. Rationality: The Essential Human Characteristic? The Politics of Cognition: On the Fatal Attractiveness of Cognitive Models. New Directions: Alternatives to a Monolithic Psychology of Cognition. References.
Biography
Christina Lee
"...book is valuable in identifying central issues that need to be addressed in understanding the relationships between biological, behavioral, and cultural processes..."
—Contemporary Psychology"...this book provides a good summary of some of the problems that exist in the use of cognitive models to explain social behaviour."
—Applied Cognitive Psychology
