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Informationen zum Autor Marcin Bukowski , Lecturer and Researcher, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Immo Fritsche, Professor of Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany. Ana Guinote, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK. Miroslaw Kofta, Professor of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland. Zusammenfassung Coping with Uncontrollability is a unique integration of cutting-edge research on this timely topic, surveying the effects of control deprivation on social cognition, coping strategies, and how individuals relate to the broader social context. It will appeal particularly to students and scholars within social, organizational, and health psychology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From Coping to Helplessness: Effects of Control Deprivation on Cognitive and Affective Processes 2. The Motivation for Control: Loss of Control Promotes Energy, Effort, and Action 3. "Ironic" Effects of Need for Closure on Closed-minded Processing Mode: The Role of Perceived Control over Reducing Uncertainty 4. Uncontrollability in the Classroom: The Intellectual Helplessness Perspective 5. Compensatory Control Theory and the Psychological Importance of Perceiving Order 6. Perceived Uncontrollability as a Coping Resource: The Control-serving Function of Enemies and Uncertainty 7. Giving in and Giving Up: Accommodation and Fatalistic Withdrawal as Alternatives to Primary Control Restoration 8. Extending Control Perceptions to the Social Self: Ingroups Serve the Restoration of Control 9. Coping with Identity Threats to Group Agency as well as Group Value: Explicit and Implicit Routes to Resistance 10. Thinking Up and Talking Up: Restoring Control through Mindreading 11. Accentuation of Tending and Befriending Among the Powerless 12 . The Emotional Side of Power(lessness) 13. Uncontrollability, Reactance, and Power: Power as a Resource to Regain Control after Freedom Threats ...
