Social context and cognitive performance: towards a social psychology of cognition

"Based on 20 years of research on the social regulation of academic performances, this book offers theoretical and empirical arguments in favour of the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. A "social psychology of cognition" is...

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Main Authors: Monteil, Jean-Marc 1947- (Author), Huguet, Pascal (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Hove Psychology Press 1999
Series:European monographs in social psychology
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Summary:"Based on 20 years of research on the social regulation of academic performances, this book offers theoretical and empirical arguments in favour of the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. A "social psychology of cognition" is suggested, in which the fashionable distinction between cognition and social cognition makes no sense. From this innovative perspective it is indeed more the social nature of the individual rather than that of the object to be processed that defines the social nature of cognition. Well-known phenomena such as social fascination and social loafing as well as established educational practices are also re-examined from this perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:V, 170 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0863777848

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