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Book SynopsisEuropean Review of Social Psychology Volume 8 Edited by Wolfgang Stroebe Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Miles Hewstone University of Wales, Cardiff, UK The European Review of Social Psychology is an annual series that reflects the dynamism of social psychology in Europe and the attention now paid to European ideas and research. Although open to authors from all nations, one of its major purposes is to further the international exchange of ideas by providing an outlet for substantial accounts of theoretical and empirical work that has not been previously published in English. With the help of an editorial board consisting of senior scholars from various European countries and the USA, the editors invite outstanding researchers to contribute to these volumes. The emphasis of these contributions is on critical assessment of major areas of research and of substantial individual programmes of research as well as on topics and initiatives of contemporary interest and originality. Th
Table of ContentsCognitive Dissonance Theory: A Radical Review (R.-V. Joule & J.-L. Beauvois).
Affect, Attitudes and Decisions: Let's Be More Specific (J. van der Pligt, et al.).
Affective Priming (K. Klauer).
Hindsight Bias: Impaired Memory or Biased Reconstruction? (D. Stahlberg & A. Maass).
Cognitive and Social Consequences of the Need for Cognitive Closure (D. Webster & A. Kruglanski).
The Context/Comparison Model of Social Influence: Mechanisms, Structure and Linkages that Underlie Indirect Attitude Change (W. Crano & E. Alvaro).
The Group as a Basis for Emergent Stereotype Consensus (S. Haslam, et al.).
Outgroup Prejudice in Western Europe (T. Pettigrew, et al.).
Indexes.
Contents of Previous Volumes.
