1st Edition
Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World
Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World: An Introduction
Marcin Bukowski, Immo Fritsche, Ana Guinote and Mirosław Kofta
Part 1: Cognitive, Emotional and Socio-behavioral Reactions to Uncontrollability
Chapter 1. From Coping to Helplessness: Effects of Control Deprivation on Cognitive and Affective Processes
Marcin Bukowski and Mirosław Kofta
Chapter 2. The Motivation for Control: Loss of Control Promotes Energy, Effort, and Action
Katharine H. Greenaway, Michael C. Philipp and Katherine R. Storrs
Chapter 3. "Ironic" Effects of Need for Closure on Closed-minded Processing Mode: The Role of Perceived Control over Reducing Uncertainty
Małgorzata Kossowska, Marcin Bukowski and Sindhuja Sankaran
Chapter 4. Uncontrollability in the Classroom: The Intellectual Helplessness Perspective
Klara Rydzewska, Marzena Rusanowska, Izabela Krejtz and Grzegorz Sedek
Part 2: Socially Grounded Responses to Perceived Lack of Control: From Compensation to Active Coping
Chapter 5. Compensatory Control Theory and the Psychological Importance of Perceiving Order
Bastiaan T. Rutjens and Aaron C. Kay
Chapter 6. Perceived Uncontrollability as a Coping Resource: The Control-serving Function of Enemies and Uncertainty
Daniel Sullivan and Sheridan A. Stewart
Chapter 7. Giving in and Giving Up: Accommodation and Fatalistic Withdrawal as Alternatives to Primary Control Restoration
Joseph Hayes, Mike Prentice and Ian McGregor
Chapter 8. Extending Control Perceptions to the Social Self: Ingroups Serve the Restoration of Control
Janine Stollberg, Immo Fritsche, Markus Barth and Philipp Jugert
Chapter 9. Coping with Identity Threats to Group Agency as well as Group Value: Explicit and Implicit Routes to Resistance
Soledad de Lemus, Russell Spears, Jolien van Breen and Maïka Telga
Part 3: Uncontrollability, Powerlessness and Intergroup Cognition
Chapter 10. Thinking Up and Talking Up: Restoring Control through Mindreading
Susan T. Fiske, Dan L. Ames, Jillian K. Swencionis and Cydney H. Dupree
Chapter 11. Accentuation of Tending and Befriending Among the Powerless
Ana Guinote and Joris Lammers
Chapter 12. The Emotional Side of Power(lessness)
Katerina Petkanopoulou, Guillermo B. Willis and Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón
Chapter 13. Uncontrollability, Reactance, and Power: Power as a Resource to Regain Control after Freedom Threats
Christina Steindl, Eva Jonas and Sandra Sittenthaler
Biography
Marcin Bukowski, Lecturer and Researcher, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
Immo Fritsche, Professor of Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany.
Ana Guinote, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK.
Mirosław Kofta, Professor of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland.
