Social Cognition: The Basis of Human Interaction by Fritz Strack (English) Hardc

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This volume provides comprehensive coverage of social cognition from worldwide leaders in the field, whose chapters combine an overview of seminal research with the state-of-the-art in this central topic in social psychology.

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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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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 authors are internationally renowned experts in their fields and provide the reader with a first-hand experience about classic and current research in their domain.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.

Author Biography

Universitat Wurzburg, Germany Universiteit Van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

Social Cognition: An Introduction. Attention, Perception and Social Cognition. Representing Social Concepts Modally and Amodally. Unconscious, Conscious, and Metaconscious in Social Cognition. Conversational Inference: Social Cognition as Interactional Intelligence. From Simple Categorization to Higher-Order Inference Problems. Mental Construal in Social Judgment. Social Comparison. Metacognition. Spontaneous Evaluations. Emotion. A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Automatic Self Regulation: The Relevance of Goals in the Information Processing Sequence. Language and Social Cognition. Culture and Social Cognition in Human Interaction.

Details ISBN1841694517 Short Title SOCIAL COGNITION Language English ISBN-10 1841694517 ISBN-13 9781841694511 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 302.12 Year 2009 Series Frontiers of Social Psychology Imprint Psychology Press Ltd Place of Publication Hove Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Jens Förster Illustrations Illustrations Edited by Jens Förster Subtitle The Basis of Human Interaction DOI 10.1604/9781841694511 AU Release Date 2009-03-06 NZ Release Date 2009-03-06 UK Release Date 2009-03-06 Pages 352 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2009-03-06 Alternative 9781138876743 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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