Social cognition : the basis of human interaction / edited by Fritz Strack and Jens Förster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strack, Fritz, 1950-

Förster, Jens, 1965-

Series:

Frontiers of social psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social perception.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Psychology Press, [2009]

Summary:

Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has flourished since the late 1980s. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social context. Moreover, social cognition has integrated emotional influences and unconscious processes to reach a more complete understanding of social psychological phenomena.

In this volume, the reader will find a representative sample of outstanding research in the field of social cognition. The chapters address its central themes, roughly organized along the temporal axis of information processing. They include basic operations such as perception, categorization, representation, and judgmental inferences. Other chapters focus on such issues as social comparison, emotion, language, and culture. Contributed by internationally renowned experts in their respective fields, the authors provide the reader with first-hand experience about classic and current research in their disciplines.

Social Cognition: The Basis of Human Interaction is an invaluable resource for researchers requiring a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of the field and may also be used by intermediate and advanced students of social cognition.

Contents:

1 Attention, Perception, and Social Cognition / Galen V. Bodenhausen, Kurt Hugenberg 1

2 Representing Social Concepts Modally and Amodally / Paula M. Niedenthal, Laurie Mondillon, Daniel A. Effron, Lawrence W. Barsalou 23

3 Unconscious, Conscious, and Metaconscious in Social Cognition / Piotr Winkielman, Jonathan W. Schooler 49

4 Conversational Inference: Social Cognition as Interactional Intelligence / Denis Hilton 71

5 Introduction: From Simple Categorization to Higher-Order Inference Problems / Klaus Fiedler, Henning Plessner 93

6 Mental Construal in Social Judgment / Norbert Schwarz 121

7 Comparison / Thomas Mussweiler 139

8 Metacognition / Herbert Bless, Johannes Keller, Eric R. Igou 157

9 Intuition / Fritz Strack, Roland Deutsch 179

10 Spontaneous Evaluations / Karl Christoph Klauer 199

11 Emotion / Roland Neumann 219

12 A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Automatic Self-Regulation: The Relevance of Goals in the Information-Processing Sequence / Jens Förster, Markus Denzler 245

13 Language and Social Cognition / Gün R. Semin 269

14 Culture and Social Cognition in Human Interaction / Bettina Hannover, Ulrich Kühnen 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781841694511

1841694517

OCLC:

231947337