APA handbook of personality and social psychology. Vol. 1, Attitudes and social cognition / Mario Mikulincer [and others], editors-in-chief.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mikulincer, Mario, editor.

Bargh, John A., editor.

Shaver, Phillip R., editor.

American Psychological Association

Series:

APA handbooks in psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality.

Social psychology.

Psychology, Social.

social psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Personality.

Psychology, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Handbook of personality and social psychology

Personality and social psychology

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2015.

Summary:

"This volume of the APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology is organized around several central themes that have characterized important advances in attitudes and social cognition research and theory over the past quarter century. First come several chapters directly concerned with human nature, the question of people's "factory-equipped" initial tendencies that shape not only their infantile experience and early learning but often persist as strong tendencies into adulthood. Next are four chapters reviewing advances in our understanding of the specific role of conscious thought processes in judgment and behavior, research that has given us a much clearer picture of what consciousness is than 30 years ago (when the answer was simply "everything"). Relatedly, the next section of the volume focuses on people's subjective or phenomenal experience of the world, mainly in terms of how they deal with strong anxieties and negative affect resulting from clear threats, existential and otherwise. These chapters document the strong human tendencies toward motivated cognition, the direction of thought and belief toward more positive and efficacious views of oneself than might be justified by actual circumstances. This theme is picked up again in the final section of this volume dealing with motivation"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Evolutionary social cognition / Steven L. Neuberg and Mark Schaller

Primate social cognition : what we have learned from nonhuman primates and other animals / Lucy A. Bates and Richard W. Byrne

Psychological and sociomoral reasoning in infancy / Renée Baillargeon, Rose M. Scott, Zijing He, Stephanie Sloane, Peipei Setoh, Kyong-sun Jin, Di Wu, and Lin Bian

Embodiment of cognition and emotion / Piotr Winkielman, Paula Niedenthal, Joseph Wielgosz, Jiska Eelen, and Liam C. Kavanagh

Minding the mind : the value of distinguishing among unconscious, conscious, and metaconscious processes / Jonathan W. Schooler, Michael D. Mrazek, Benjamin Baird, and Piotr Winkielman

Metacognition / Norbert Schwarz

Conscious thoughts and the causation of behavior / Roy F. Baumeister, E.J. Masicampo, and Kathleen D. Vohs

Faces and first impressions / Leslie A. Zebrowitz and Joann M. Montepare

Experimental existential psychology : living in the shadow of the facts of life / Tom Pyszczynski, Daniel Sullivan, and Jeff Greenberg

Psychological importance of beliefs in control and order : historical and contemporary perspectives in social and personality psychology / Aaron C. Kay, Daniel Sullivan, and Mark J. Landau

Social cognition and health / Shelley E. Taylor

Coengagement, coconstruction, coevocation : three principles to bridge relationships and social cognition / Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Ölem Ayduk

Self and other / Sarah Molouki and Emily Pronin

Cultural psychology / Dov Cohen

Stereotyping : processes and content / Susan T. Fiske and Courtney Bearns Tablante

Processes of social influence through attitude change / Richard E. Petty and Pablo Briñol

Social cognition of power / Ana Guinote

Leadership / Alice H. Eagly and John Antonakis

New frontiers in diversity research : conceptions of diversity and their theoretical and practical implications / Victoria C. Plaut, Sapna Cheryan, and Flannery G. Stevens

Emotion-cognition interactions / Dacher Keltner and E.J. Horberg

Implicit attitudes / Irene V. Blair, Nilanjana Dasgupta, and Jack Glaser

Social cognitive neuroscience : a review of core systems / Bruce P. Doré, Noam Zerubavel, and Kevin N. Ochsner

Political cognition and its normative implications for the "democratic experiment" : theory, evidence, and controversy / Howard Lavine, John T. Jost, and Milton Lodge

Social cognition in law / Eugene Borgida and Erik J. Girvan

Motivated cognition in self and social thought / David Dunning

Self-regulation and its failure : the seven deadly threats to self-regulation / Dylan D. Wagner and Todd F. Heatherton

Goal pursuit functions : working together / E. Tory Higgins and Abigail A. Scholer

The duality of everyday life : dual-process and dual-system models in social psychology / Fritz Strack and Roland Deutsch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (APA PsycNet, viewed July 9, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: APA handbook of personality and social psychology. Vol. 1, Attitudes and social cognition.

ISBN:

9781433816994

1433816997

9781433817014

1433817012

OCLC:

882555917

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