Explanations, Accounts, and Illusions: A Critical Analysis

John McClure

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511521249

This book provides a lucid survey of the major viewpoints in social psychology concerning people's self-awareness (or lack of it), their explanations of their own actions, and their cognitive illusions and self-misunderstandings. In this readable but scholarly review, John McClure examines the major approaches to social cognition developed in America and Europe, including the more orthodox models which draw on information-processing and behavioural concepts; and the innovative approaches which draw on hermeneutic models, discourse analysis and, in particular, critical theory. The book provides a clear picture of what social psychology shows about people's awareness of the causes of their own actions. It also describes the nature of the misperceptions and cognitive distortions that underlie psychological disorders, and that contribute to people's failure to achieve their aims.

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A Critical Analysis

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-5

2 - Paradigms of explanation
pp 6-24

3 - Consciousness and illusions: critical perspectives
pp 25-45

4 - Self-perception and social cognition
pp 46-66

5 - New accounts: ethogenics and hermeneutics
pp 67-84

6 - Self-presentation and discourse analysis
pp 85-101

7 - Illusions, control, and helplessness
pp 102-123

8 - Phenomenological, cognitive, and linguistic therapies
pp 124-143

9 - Discounting and dialectics: contradictions in explanations
pp 144-163

10 - Conclusion
pp 164-166

References
pp 167-182

Index of names
pp 183-186

Index of subjects
pp 187-188

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