Cognitive Analysis of Social Behavior

The fifth Summer School organized by the European Associa tion of Experimental Social Psychology was held in Aix-en-Proven ce (France, from July 12 to 31, 1981. Previous schools had taken place in The Hague (The Nederlands) in 1966, Leuven (Belgium) in 1967, Konstanz (Germany) in 1972 and in Oxford (Great-Britain) in 1976. This is an important activity of the European Association and has always met with great success. This time, 130 applica tions were received while only 50 could be accepted, given the format adopted for the Summer School. They represented many different countries and institutions. To fully understand the aims of such a Summer School, es pecially of the present one, it is probably best to consider first its organization. Participants were graduates or young postdoctoral students in experimental social psychology. For three weeks they worked in five teams of ten participants each under the mentorship of a senior researcher. Each of five staff members had suggested a special topic of study in which they were interested, well be fore the start of the session. This enabled the teams to be de termined early enough for the participants to be able to prepare for the sessions. In Aix, in the magnificent surroundings of an old convent, afternoons (and often evenings as well) were spent discussing theoretical issues arising from the suggested topics and in planning research to test specific hypotheses.

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on The Cognitive Analysis of Socio-Psychological Processes, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 12-31, 1981

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Social Judgement and social behaviour: A dual representation model.- The social legacy of gestaltpsychology.- Pseudo-cognitions and substitute behaviour.- Attribution, integration, representation and evaluation.- Cognitive representation, social judgments and social behaviour.- The dual representation of social reality.- References.- Attitudes and social behaviour.- Historical background.- Unsolved problems.- Goal directed attitudes and behaviour.- Judgements, announcements and behaviour.- Schemata, scripts, and behaviour.- Concluding comments.- References.- The cognitive analysis of a persuasive argument.- Study 1. A correlational analysis of the persuasiveness and informativeness.- Study 2. Basic operations in opinion formation.- Study 3. Time required to form an opinion with informative and uninformative arguments.- Study 4. The representation of informative and uninformative arguments.- General discussion.- References.- The coming era of representations.- Rediscovering the social mind.- Cognitive social psychology. Reform or revolution.- The art of asking why: From lore to science.- From social cognitions to social representations.- Who is the real naive psychologist ?.- Waiting for Godot.- References.- Du biais d'équilibre structural à la représentation du groupe.- Biais, schèmes et représentation.- Décomposition du scheme d'équilibre.- Axiome de parcimonie et situation de stress.- Axiome de groupage et scheme d'équivalence.- Amitié et hiérarchie.- Le groupe égalitaire.- Image du groupe et différenciation.- Conclusion.- Bibliographie.- Implications des théories implicites de personnalité pour le diagnostic psychologique.- Les théories implicites de personnalité.- L'erreur fondamentale.- Pourquoi les psychologues sont davantage sensibles àla personnalité ?.- S'agit-il d'une erreur chez les psychologues ?.- Les conséquences de l'erreur fondamentale chez les psychologues.- Quels remèdes envisager.- Bibliographie.- On becoming a psychologist: A field-study in Italy.- Method.- The scientific status of psychology.- Working activity = goals and intervention strategy.- Psychologist's professional identity..- The psychologist's professional training.- Discussion.- References.- Experimental studies of intergroup behaviour.- Experimental social psychology and the realities of social conflicts.- The interchangeable individuals.- Conclusion.- References.- Différenciations entre soi et autrui et entre groupes Recherches sur la covariation entre les différenciations inter-individuelles et inter-groupes.- Recherches sur les différenciations inter-individuelles et inter-groupes.- Bibliographie.- Differentiating and non-differentiating behavior. A cognitive approach to the sense of identity.- The sense of identity.- In search of a social recognition of identity.- References.