Social Psychology and Dysfunctional Behavior

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 1-11

3. Interpersonal Origins of Dysfunctional Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Attributional Processes

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 15-33

   3. Attributions, Perceived Control, and Depression

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 35-49

   4. Self-Processes and Behavioral Problems

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 51-64

   5. Self-Presentational Aspects of Maladaptive Behavior

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 65-82

   6. Anxiety and Inhibition in Interpersonal Relations

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 83-95

   7. Troubled Relationships

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 97-117

4. Interpersonal Processes in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychological Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Clinical Inference

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 121-146

   3. The Social Influence Model in Counseling and Psychotherapy

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 147-163

   4. Behavioral Compliance and Psychological Change

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 165-178

   5. Expectancies and Behavior Change

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 179-194

   6. Areas and Issues

      • Mark R. Leary, Rowland S. Miller

      Pages 195-201

5. Back Matter

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A colleague recently recounted a conversation she had had with a group of graduate students. For reasons that she cannot recall, the discussion had turned to the topic of "old-fashioned" ideas in psychology-perspectives and beliefs that had once enjoyed widespread support but that are now regarded as quaint curiosities. The students racked their brains to outdo one ofthe historical trivia of psychology: Le Bon's another with their knowledge fascination with the "group mind," Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism, the short-lived popularity of "moral therapy," Descartes' belief that erec­ tions are maintained by air from the lungs, and so on. When it came his tum to contribute to the discussion, one student brought up an enigmatic journal he had seen in the library stacks: the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. He thought that the inclusion of abnormal and social psychology within the covers of a single journal seemed an odd combination, and he wondered aloud what sort of historical quirk had led psychologists of an earlier generation to regard these two fields as somehow related. Our colleague then asked her students if they had any ideas about how such an odd combination had found its way into a single journal.

• Aggression
• diagnosis
• psychology
• social psychology
• therapy

• Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

  Mark R. Leary

• Department of Psychology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, USA

  Rowland S. Miller

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