The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition

Susan T Fiske, C Neil Macrae, Susan T Fiske, C Neil Macrae, Author

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780857024817
• eBook ISBN: 9781473915268
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition is a landmark volume. Edited by two of the field?s most eminent academics and supported by a distinguished global advisory board, the 56 authors - each an expert in their own chapter topic - provide authoritative and thought-provoking overviews of this fascinating territory of research. Not since the early 1990s has a Handbook been published in this field, now, Fiske and Macrae have provided a timely and seminal benchmark; a state of the art overview that will benefit advanced students and academics not just within social psychology but beyond these borders too.

Following an introductory look at the ?uniqueness of social cognition?, the Handbook goes on to explore basic and underlying processes of social cognition, from implicit social cognition and consciousness and meta-cognition to judgment and decision-making. Also, the wide-ranging applications of social cognition research in ?the real world? from the burgeoning and relatively recent fields of social cognitive development and social cognitive aging to the social cognition of relationships are investigated. Finally, there is a critical and exciting exploration of the future directions in this field.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition will be an indispensable volume for any advanced student or academic wanting or needing to understand the landscape of social cognition research in the 21st century.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Revisiting the Sovereignty of Social Cognition: Finally Some Action
• 2 Control, Awareness, and Other Things We Might Learn to Live Without
• 3 Implicit Social Cognition
• 4 Consciousness, Metacognition, and the Unconscious
• 5 Goals, Motivated Social Cognition, and Behavior
• 6 The Social Perception of Faces
• 7 Mind Perception
• 8 Socially Situated Cognition: Recasting Social Cognition as an Emergent Phenomenon
• 9 Likes and Dislikes: A Social Cognitive Perspective on Attitudes
• 10 Nonverbal Perception
• 11 Embodied Social Thought: Linking Social Concepts, Emotion, and Gesture
• 12 Levels of Mental Construal
• 13 Judgment and Decision Making
• 14 Cognition and Action in the Social World
• 15 The Social Psychology of Emotion
• 16 Social Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups
• 17 Self-Evaluation and Self-Knowledge
• 18 Social Cognition in Close Relationships
• 19 Representations of Social Groups in the Early Years of Life
• 20 Social Cognitive Aging
• 21 Atypical Social Cognition
• 22 Social Cognition in Real Worlds: Cultural Psychology and Social Cognition
• 23 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition
• 24 Thinkers’ Personalities: On Individual Differences in the Processes of Sense Making
• 25 The Ideological Toolbox: Ideologies as Tools of Motivated Social Cognition
• 26 Gene × Environment Interaction in Social Cognition
• 27 “One Word: Plasticity” − Social Cognition’s Futures
• Name Index
• Subject Index