Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology and directs the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at the University of the West Indies. He is a Fullbright Research Scholar and has published several books in the area of social psychology. He has a robust research agenda with a focus on the psychology of fear of crime and has published in several international journals including Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, British Journal of Criminology, International Victimology, Crime Media and Culture and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories.

Acknowledgments ix
Section 1 - Social Cognition 1
1 Theorizing Social Psychology 3
2 Toward an Affect Arousal Reactance Theory: Reactance Theory Revisited 15
Derek Chadee and Mary Chadee
3 Inconsistency in Cognition: Cognitive Dissonance 60
Cindy Harmon-Jones, Paul R. Nail, and Kurt A. Boniecki
4 Attribution Theories How People Make Sense of Behavior 93
Bertram F. Malle
5 The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion: Thoughtful and Non-Thoughtful Social Influence 120
Benjamin C. Wagner and Richard E. Petty
6 Construal Level Theory: Psychological Distance and Construal 143
Victor Grandison and Mary Chadee
Section 2 - Social Comparison 163
7 Social Comparison: Theory, Research, and Applications 165
Jan Crusius, Katja Corcoran, and Thomas Mussweiler
8 Relative Deprivation and Cognate Theories: Making Sense of Irrational Behaviors 188
Beverly G. Conrique and Faye J. Crosby
Section 3 - Social Reinforcement 215
9 Equity Theory: Evaluating Fairness 217
Denise M. Polk
10 Interdependence in Social Interaction 250
Ann C. Rumble
Section 4 - Self 271
11 Self-Categorization and Social Identification: Making Sense of Us and Them 273
Nils Karl Reimer, Katharina Schmid, Miles Hewstone, and Ananthi Al Ramiah
12 From Culture to Cognition: Social Categorization Theory Reloaded 296
Richard J. Crisp, Angela T. Maitner, and Andrew J. Marcinko
13 Symbolic Interactionism: Early Philosophy to Models of Artificial Intelligence 317
Andreas Schneider
14 Impression Management in Everyday Life 350
Meni Koslowsky, Shani Pindek, and Abira Reizer
Contributors 372
Index 378