Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge Cognitive and Motivational Bases
Whatever your reasons, kind reader, for reading these words,-what ever your premises about forewords, whatever the epistemic motivation with which you approach them-Iet me urge you to turn immediately to Kruglanski's first chapter and skim it. If any ent
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Human Knowledge
Cognitive and Motivational Bases
PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ASeries o[ Texts and Monographs • Edited by Elliot Aronson Recent volumes in this series:
THE DILEMMA OF DIFFERENCE: A Multidisciplinary View of Stigma Edited by Stephen C. Ainlay, Gaylene Becker, and Lerita M. Coleman ELIMINATING RACISM: Profiles in Controversy Edited by Phyllis A. Katz and Dalmas A. Taylor HUMAN AGGRESSION Robert A. Baron INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan LAY EPISTEMICS AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: Cognitive and Motivational Bases Arie W. Kruglanski NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard Heslin and Miles Patterson THE PHYSICAL A TTRACTIVENESS PHENOMENA Gordon L. Patzer
REDEFINING SOCIAL PROBLEMS Edited by Edward Seidman and Julian Rappaport SELF-DISCLOSURE: Theory, Research, and Therapy Edited by Valerian J. Derlega and John H. Berg SCHOOL DESEGREGATION Harold B. Gerard and Norman Miller SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: Past, Present, and Future Edited by Walter G. Stephan and Joe R. Feagin UNIQUENESS: The Human Pursuit of Difference C. R. Snyder and Howard L. Fromkin
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Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge Cognitive and Motivational Bases Arie
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Kruglanski
University of Maryland College Park, Maryland
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kruglanski, Arie W. Lay epistemics and human knowledge. (Perspectives in sodal psychology) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Sodal perception. 2. Knowledge, Sodology of. 3. Epistemics. 4. Attribution (Sodal psychology) I. Title. IL Series. BF323.S63K78 1989 302'.12 89·16057
ISBN 978-1-4899-0926-8 ISBN 978-1-4899-0924-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-0924-4
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Ta Hannah, my most canstructive critic
Foreword Whatever your reasons, kind reader, for reading these words,-whatever your premises about forewords, whatever the epistemic motivation with which you approach them-Iet me urge you to turn immediately to Kruglanski's first chapter and skim it. If any enthusiasm for sodal psychology flows in your veins, you will certainly proceed then to read further in this important book. It represents some dozen years of Arie's thought and of his and his colleagues' research. Its intellectual scope covers 50 years of sodal psychology-from attitudes and attitude change, to balance, dissonance, and the various other cognitive consist
