Social Cognition
eBook - ePub

Social Cognition

The Basis of Human Interaction

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Social Cognition

The Basis of Human Interaction

About this book

Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing over the past two decades. 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 like perception, categorization, representation, and judgmental inferences. Other chapters focus on issues like social comparison, emotion, language and culture. All of the contributors are internationally-renowned experts who share with the reader their accounts of the research experience in each of their domains.

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.

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Yes, you can access Social Cognition by Fritz Strack, Jens Förster, Fritz Strack,Jens Förster in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & History & Theory in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Social Cognition: An Introduction
  7. About the Editors
  8. Contributors
  9. 1 Attention, Perception, and Social Cognition
  10. 2 Representing Social Concepts Modally and Amodally
  11. 3 Unconscious, Conscious, and Metaconscious in Social Cognition
  12. 4 Conversational Inference: Social Cognition as Interactional Intelligence
  13. 5 Induction: From Simple Categorization to Higher-Order Inference Problems
  14. 6 Mental Construal in Social Judgment
  15. 7 Comparison
  16. 8 Metacognition
  17. 9 Intuition
  18. 10 Spontaneous Evaluations
  19. 11 Emotion
  20. 12 A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Automatic Self-Regulation: The Relevance of Goals in the Information-Processing Sequence
  21. 13 Language and Social Cognition
  22. 14 Culture and Social Cognition in Human Interaction
  23. Author Index
  24. Subject Index