Gabriel Mugny

Fabrizio Butera

This book represents an important step forward in bridging social influence research and practice with regard to a wide range of social issues, including some of our society's central preoccupations, such as politics, economics, discrimination, education and training, and health. Research on social influence, although usually conducted in the laboratory, clearly has the potential to suggest directions for practical action. Social influence, since it is concerned with social change, is one of the domains of social psychology in which the linkage between research and application should be at its strongest. Written by leading experts from a variety of areas, this book is suitable for a wide audience: For researchers, who will find examples of how the discipline can contribute to the development of society and thus provide insights and guidance for devising applied or applicable research; for practitioners who use or exert social influence in developing or applying social policy, to whom it will provide a theoretical basis and practical models; and for students, who all ask the same question -- "What is the use of what we study?" -- as well as for their teachers, who are expected to provide an answer.

Promoting Individual and Social Change

Social Influence in Social Reality

Serge Moscovici

Eddy van Avermaet

The contributors to this volume examine social processes in terms of minority influence.

Perspectives on Minority Influence

Felice Carugati

This book is a digital reprint of Gabriel Mugny's Social Representations of Intelligence.

Social Representations of Intelligence

Willem Doise

The definition of intelligence has become the object of many controversies - particularly about its nature and the causes of its development - with essential social implications at stake. To get out of this deadlock, the authors of this book propose a social conception of intelligence and of its development: they consider intelligence as resulting from the inter-individual coordinations of actions and judgements. They experimentally study how groups of children elaborate new cognitive tools which their members, taken individually, did not possess at the start, and how these cognitive tools are subsequently used by the child alone.

Gabriel Mugny

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