Explanations, Accounts, and Illusions（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　This book provides a lucid survey of the major viewpoints in
social psychology concerning people’s self-awareness (or lack of
it), their explanations of their own actions, and their cognitive
illusions and self-misunderstandings. In this readable but
scholarly review, John McClure examines the major approaches to
social cognition developed in America and Europe, including the
more orthodox models which draw on information-processing and
behavioural concepts; and the innovative approaches which draw on
hermeneutic models, discourse analysis and, in particular, critical
theory. The book provides a clear picture of what social psychology
shows about people’s awareness of the causes of their own actions.
It also describes the nature of the misperceptions and cognitive
distortions that underlie psychological disorders, and that
contribute to people’s failure to achieve their aims.

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Paradigms of explanation
3. Consciousness and illusions: critical perspectives
4. Self-perception and social cognition
5. New accounts: ethogenics and hermeneutics
6. Self-presentation and discourse analysis
7. Illusions, control and helplessness
8. Phenomenological, cognitive and linguistic therapies
9. Discounting and dialectics: contradictions in explanations
10. Conclusions
References
Index of names
Index of subjects.