Social cognition is an approach to understanding how people think about people and events. We are constantly processing information to navigate the world we live in.
The authors will guide your students, using examples and up-to-date studies, through this approach; from explaining the processes themselves right through to demonstrating the role cognitive processes play in our social lives.
With chapters on the following processes:
· Memory
· Judgement
· Attention
· Attribution
· Evaluation
· Automatic processing.
This book will provide your students with a framework for understanding the most common areas of interest for Social Cognition, such as perception, attitudes and stereotyping.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Processing Social Information: A Conceptual Framework
Chapter 2: Cognitive Representations: Structures of the Mind
Chapter 3: Automatic Processing: Doing More Than We Know
Chapter 4: Attention: The Mind’s Eye Meets the Social World
Chapter 5: Interpretation: Making Meaning
Chapter 6: Evaluation: Judging Good and Bad
Chapter 7: Inference: Going Beyond the Obvious
Chapter 8: Attribution: Understanding Why Things Happen
Chapter 9: Judgment: Reasoning and Decision Making
Chapter 10: Memory: Storage and Retrieval
Chapter 11: The Time Dimension: Understanding the Past, Anticipating the Future
Chapter 12: Social Cognition and Action: Thinking and Doing
About the author
Steven J. Stroessner is a Professor of Communication at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before this position, he was a Professor of Psychology and an award-winning instructor at Barnard College, Columbia University. He also served as a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research. His research examines cognitive and motivational aspects of stereotyping and prejudice, and he has published extensively on social categorization and the utilization of stereotypes in judgment. More recently, his research has examined social categorization processes in judgments of non-social entities ranging from shapes to robots. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and a Fellow and Executive Officer of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. He co-edited a recent book, Social Perception from Individuals to Groups, and is an Associate Editor of the journal, Social Cognition. He holds B.A.s in Psychology and Social Work from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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