Abstract: . . .  metatheoreticalin nature, for an average of 1.75 per is- sue or 19.4% of the total. These included expository essays on thesocialpsychological significanceofMill, Bartlett, and Derrida, aswell asmore typical construc- tionist themes such asculture, language, ideology, and discourse analysis. Many additional articlespublished inthese journals touchedon key metatheoreticalissues in the course of reporting on experimental studies, which suggests again that rappmchement ispossible. Of course,thefactthatsome journals arepublishing socialconstructionistanalyses orthat someresearchers are combining constructionist and experimental meth- ods does notnecessarilymeanthatsocialpsychologyas adisciplineisgaining orimproving.Intheremainderof t . . .
. . .  thesocialpsychological significanceofMill, Bartlett, and Derrida, aswell asmore typical construc- tionist themes such asculture, language, ideology, and discourse analysis. Many additional articlespublished inthese journals touchedon key metatheoreticalissues in the course of reporting on experimental studies, which suggests again that rappmchement ispossible. Of course,thefactthatsome journals arepublishing socialconstructionistanalyses orthat someresearchers are combining constructionist and experimental meth- ods does notnecessarilymeanthatsocialpsychologyas adisciplineisgaining orimproving.Intheremainderof t . . .
. . .  collective representations are dialecti-. callyintertwined (e.g., Gergen, 1998; McGuire, 1986; Moscovici, 1988). In this sense, then, the intellectual origins of experimental social psychology and social constructionism are essentiallythe same. This is true not only ofvoices fromthe distantpast, but of our relatively recent ancestry as well. Contem- poraryworkinsocialdevelopment,forexample, builds fundamentally on the perspectives of Vygotsky and Piaget, both of whom emphasized the ways in which children growinto the intellectual lifearound them by constructing shared reality in the practical context of social interaction (e.g., Averill, 1980; Doise, 1989; Kessen, 1979, 1990; Moscovici, 1988). This work, in turn, provides the developmental basis for regarding people as active, expectancy-laden perceivers in ever-changing social environments, a vision that has cometo be sharedby experimentalsocial cognitivere- searchers and social constructionists alike (e.g., Fiske & Taylor, 1991; Gergen, . . .
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