Pascal Huguet, Jean-Marc Monteil

Social Context and Cognitive Performance

Towards a Social Psychology of Cognition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on 20 years of research on the social regulation of academic performances, this book offers theoretical and empirical arguments in favor of the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. We all engage in social interactions, compare ourselves with other people, belong to social groups, and are the object of a myriad of categorizations. Not only do such social experiences affect cognition, but they actually determine its form and its content. Several experiments indeed reveal that cognitive performance depends on the relationship between the individual and the social context in which cognition takes place. And this relationship is not forged directly by features of the situation, but rather by personal construals of these features (most notably social comparison).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780863777844
• ISBN-10: 0863777848
• Artikelnr.: 21583912

Autorenporträt

Jean-Marc Monteil, Pascal Huguet

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Towards a Social Psychology of Cognition. The Cognitive and
Social Bases of 'Insertion'. The Social Regulation of Academic
Performances. An 'Autobiographical Attention Effect' : A Second Series of
Studies. Preliminaries to a Social Comparison Feedback Theory. Social
Facilitation and Inhibition : Markers and Thoughts. Social-cognitive
Regulation in Co-working Group Contexts. Pointers for Educational Action.
General Conclusion. References. Indices.