Categorization in Social Psychology
- Craig McGarty - Western Sydney University, Australia
In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct actviation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation/contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social psychology.
This is a great, in depth of a topic very relevant to my course. I have set it as a recommended reading and I envision it will be read by third years and masters students who choose to write their assignment on this topic.
This is an extremely useful textbook for teaching social psychology. Some of the research is a bit outdated. It is well written, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field.
