Table of Contents

I. Historical Foundations.- 1 The Conception of a Pragmatic Social Cognitive Psychology.- 2 The Social Gestalt and Social Learning Traditions.- 3 The Constructivist Tradition.- 4 The Information-Processing Tradition.- II. Knowing Others.- 5 Evolving Models of the Social Knower.- 6 Multiple Knowing Processes.- 7 Stereotyping and Prejudice.- III. Self Processes.- 8 Negotiating Realities to Know Oneself.- 9 Goals in Personality, Emotion, and Subjective Well-Being.- 10 Self-Regulation: The Pursuit of Goals.- IV. Interpersonal Processes.- 11 Communication-Based Social Judgments and Relationship-Based Self Schemas.- 12 Close Relationships.- V. The Clinical Context.- 13 Social Clinical Psychology.- 14 The Social Cognitive Construction of Difference and Disorder.

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This book reminds us that texts and scholarly books can be highly informative and intellectually stimulating without sacrificing a good read.' Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, March 1998