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Control Motivation and Social Cognition

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Gifford Weary

    1. Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

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  2. Faith Gleicher

    1. Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

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  3. Kerry L. Marsh

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Control Motivation: Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Control, Its Loss, and Psychological Reactance

      • Jack W. Brehm
      Pages 3-30

  3. Models of Perceived Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Perceptions of Control: Determinants and Mechanisms

      • Lauren B. Alloy, Caroline M. Clements, Linda J. Koenig
      Pages 33-73

    3. Naturally Occurring Perceptions of Control: A Model of Bounded Flexibility

      • Suzanne C. Thompson
      Pages 74-93

    4. The Primacy of Control in Causal Thinking and Attributional Style: An Attributional Functionalism Perspective

      • Craig A. Anderson, William E. Deuser
      Pages 94-121

    5. Uncertainty, Mental Models, and Learned Helplessness: An Anatomy of Control Loss

      • Miroslaw Kofta
      Pages 122-153

  4. Effects of Perceived Control on Social Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Control Motivation and Attitude Change

      • Thane S. Pittman
      Pages 157-175

    3. Social Cognition and Power: Some Cognitive Consequences of Social Structure as a Source of Control Deprivation

      • Eric Dépret, Susan T. Fiske
      Pages 176-202

    4. Individual Differences in Control Motivation and Social Information Processing

      • Jerry M. Burger
      Pages 203-219

    5. Control Motivation and Self-Appraisal

      • Michael J. Strube, John H. Yost
      Pages 220-254

    6. Depression, Control Motivation, and the Processing of Information about Others

      • Gifford Weary, Kerry L. Marsh, Faith Gleicher, John A. Edwards
      Pages 255-287

  5. Conclusions and Commentary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289
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    2. The Warm Look in Control Motivation and Social Cognition

      • Richard M. Sorrentino
      Pages 291-322

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 323-344
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Over the past two decades theorists and researchers have given increasing attention to the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of various control­ related motivations and beliefs. People's notions of how much personal control they have or desire to have over important events in their lives have been used to explain a host of performance and adaptational outcomes, including motivational and performance deficits associated with learned helplessness (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978) and depression (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989), adaptation to aging (Baltes & Baltes, 1986; Rodin, 1986), cardiovascular disease (Matthews, 1982), cancer (Sklar & Anisman, 1979), increased reports of physical symptoms (Pennebaker, 1982), enhanced learning (Savage, Perlmutter, & Monty, 1979), achievement-related behaviors (Dweck & Licht, 1980; Ryckman, 1979), and post abortion adjustment (Mueller & Major, 1989). The notion that control motivation plays a fundamental role in a variety of basic, social psychological processes also has a long historical tradition. A number of theorists (Heider, 1958; Jones & Davis, 1965; Kelley, 1967), for example, have suggested that causal inferences arise from a desire to render the social world predictable and controllable. Similarly, control has been implicated as an important mediator of cognitive dissonance (Wicklund & Brehm, 1976) and attitude phenomena (Brehm & Brehm, 1981; Kiesler, Collins, & Miller, 1969). Despite the apparent centrality of control motivation to a variety of social psychological phenomena, until recently there has been relatively little research explicitly concerned with the effects of control motivation on the cognitive processes underlying such phenomena (cf.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

    Gifford Weary

  • Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

    Faith Gleicher

  • Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

    Kerry L. Marsh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Control Motivation and Social Cognition

  • Editors: Gifford Weary, Faith Gleicher, Kerry L. Marsh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8309-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8311-6Published: 24 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-8309-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 344

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology

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