Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World

Name: Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World offers an integrated view of cutting-edge research on the effects of control deprivation on social cognition. The book integrates multi-method research demonstrating how various types of control deprivation, related not only to experimental settings but also to real life situations of helplessness, can lead to variety of cognitive and emotional coping strategies at the social cognitive level. The comprehensive analyses in this book tackle issues such as: \n\n--Cognitive, emotional and socio-behavioral reactions to threats to personal control\n\n--How social factors aid in coping with a sense of lost or threatened control \n--Relating uncontrollability to powerlessness and intergroup processes \n--How lack of control experiences can influence basic and complex cognitive processes \nThis book integrates various strands of research that have not yet been presented together in an innovative volume that addresses the issue of reactions to cont.