Introduction to Social Cognition
eBook - ePub

Introduction to Social Cognition

The Essential Questions and Ideas

  1. 557 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Introduction to Social Cognition

The Essential Questions and Ideas

About this book

Why are first impressions so powerful? How do we “know” what others are like when we cannot read their minds? How can scientists measure biases that people do not want to admit--or do not know they have? This engaging text delves into social cognition by exploring major questions in the field through an everyday lens. Students are introduced to core concepts and processes pertaining to how people come to know themselves and understand the behavior of others. Classic and contemporary findings and experimental methods are explained. The text connects the research to pressing contemporary problems--the roots of political polarization, why even rational people fall prey to misinformation, and the best ways to reduce prejudice. Boxed definitions of key terms are included throughout.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. About the Author
  6. Preface
  7. Note to Students
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Contents
  10. Chapter 1. Thinking Is for Action (Purposeful), So We Make Meaning from Chaos
  11. Chapter 2. We Create Internal Mental Representations of External Reality
  12. Chapter 3. Self-Report Is Unreliable Because Cognition Is Often Automatic
  13. Chapter 4. We Can Know What People Think Even When They Don’t Know
  14. Chapter 5. First Impressions Are “Sticky” and Difficult to Update
  15. Chapter 6. First Impressions Can Be Implicit, Making Them Even More Persistent
  16. Chapter 7. We Follow Rules When Asking “Why?,” Acting Like Intuitive Scientists
  17. Chapter 8. Biases Are Common and Arise from Normal Cognitive Processes
  18. Chapter 9. Biases Are Common and Are Often Motivational in Nature
  19. Chapter 10. Beyond the Information Given: Responding Guided by Priming
  20. Chapter 11. Prejudice and Stereotyping
  21. Chapter 12. Cognitive Processing Is Flexible, and Processing Types Dissociable
  22. Chapter 13. The Updating of Impressions Is Promoted by Diagnostic Stimuli and One’s Goals
  23. References
  24. Author Index
  25. Subject Index
  26. About Guilford Press
  27. Discover Related Guilford Books