Alternatives to Cognition: A New Look at Explaining Human Social Behavior - Hardcover

Lee, Christina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805826548 ISBN 13: 9780805826548

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1997

Synopsis

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 American and European social psychology. It assumes some familiarity with contemporary social and applied psychology, and would be appropriate as a text or supplementary reading for senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social psychology and psychological theory, although it is also written with an academic research audience in mind. While it is written largely for psychologists, it would also be of interest to academics from other social-science disciplines with a general interest in explanations of individual social behavior.

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Review:

...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

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805826548
• ISBN 13: 9780805826548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172