Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 86 p.)
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ill
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780231894661
Content:
"There has been a marked trend in the social psychology of recent years to regard the basic issues as comprising the whole individual--his mode of perceiving, feeling, thinking, reacting. This has resulted in the focusing of interest on the problems of social perception; specifically, the dynamics which govern perceiving when social pressures require that one define the situation in one way or another. With this emphasis has come the intensification of the belief that it is only by experimental methods that a solid and dependable answer can be obtained. Naturally, then, social psychologists are delighted to note the reformulation of issues from the standpoint of Gestalt psychology, and the ingenious means by which experiments have been set up to determine the exact role played by past and present factors in guiding individual perception and thought, and the feeling tone which goes with acceptance or rejection of the pressures applied by others to require that we see things as they see them. It is in this context that one must understand the well-planned and competently executed experiments of Dr. Ruth Berenda--experiments in which hypotheses are clearly defined, techniques systematically thought through, and data unequivocal as regards their main implications. Without generalizing regarding other situations and basically different types of social pressures, social psychologists may gratefully point here to a study in which the struggle of the individual to accommodate himself to the requirements of others encounters an obstacle in the individual's clearest and deepest certainties regarding the world around him. It is to be hoped that these new methods will enable us to understand more fully the nature of the struggle between social pressures and the individual's demand for autonomy"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-84) and index. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2014; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2014 dcunns
Language:
English
