Cognitive Dominance: The Centrality of Cognitive Explanations in Social Psychology

Psychology, it is generally acknowledged, has undergone a cognitive revolution (Bootzin, 1985; Sperry, 1993, 1995) in the past decades. Clinical psychology, social psychology, and most of applied psychology are today unquestionably cognitive in outlook. Modem psychology, to a large extent, has no room for noncognitive explanations of behavior. Almost by definition, psychology has become the study of cognition (Bolton, 1991).