THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTH
Key Readings
Peter J. Salovey and Alexander Rothman (Eds.)
Psychology Press, 2003
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The reader will understand how classic and contemporary theory and research in social psychology apply to how people think about health and illness, and their willingness to engage in health-relevant behaviors. These connections will enable the reader to apply these principles to theory, research, and practice.
The first two sections look at people’s mental representations of health and health practices, and how these personal constructs and implicit theories are linked to behavior. People can react to new health information with acceptance, defensiveness, or ignorance. Chapters cover the relations of health research and practice to social influence, social comparison, pluralistic ignorance, social support, cognitive dissonance, message framing, and attribution theory. The last section looks at personality and health.
Peter Salovey is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology at Yale University and serves as Dean of the Graduate School. His work concerns the psychological functions of moods and emotions, emotional intelligence, and using social psychological theory to guide interventions to change health behaviors.
Alexander J. Rothman is an associate professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His research synthesizes basic research on processing and evaluating health information with the development of theory-based interventions for health promotion. He won the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions in 2002.
13 CE credits; 384 pages
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