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Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge - Cognitive and Motivational Bases (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
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Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge - Cognitive and Motivational Bases (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
Series: Perspectives in Social Psychology
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Whatever your reasons, kind reader, for reading these words, -what
ever your premises about forewords, whatever the epistemic
motivation with which you approach them-Iet me urge you to turn
immediately to Kruglanski's first chapter and skim it. If any
enthusiasm for sodal psy chology flows in your veins, you will
certainly proceed then to read further in this important book. It
represents some dozen years of Arie's thought and of his and his
colleagues' research. Its intellectual scope covers 50 years of
sodal psychology-from attitudes and attitude change, to balance,
disso nance, and the various other cognitive consistency theories,
to causal attribution, and to current cognitive sodal psychology.
Sodal psycholo gists have recently begun to leave the fireside
coziness of scribbling textbook catalogues of our field and to
venture out into the cold, outdoor adventure of detecting (or
creating?) its underlying structure. Of these attempts at providing
scope plus order, Kruglanski's must surely be the most ambitious.
For his is no mere overarching theory, which, like a circus tent
over a diverse set of sideshows, covers everything but does little
to provide thematic structure. Rather, Kruglanski tries to produce
a basic reorganization of our thinking about sodal psychology. To
use his LEGO blocks metaphor for the modification of knowledge
structures, he attempts to dismantle the current assembly of
elements of our field and reassemble them into a simpler and more
coherent configuration."
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