Social Cognition (Perspectives on Social Psychology)

Social Cognition is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the mental representations that people hold of their social world and the way that social information is processed, stored, and retrieved. The readings have been selected to provide a representative sampling of exciting research and theory on social cognition that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup. The book is organized around two broad themes: the cognitive representations of the social world, focusing on cognitions about the social world; and cognition in social interaction, showing how cognition takes place and develops within social relationships and other forms of social exchange. Mental representations / Eliot R. Smith and Sarah Queller The social unconscious / Mahzarin R. Banaji, Kristi M. Lemm, and Siri J. carpenter How the mind moves : knowledge accessibility and the fine-tuning of the cognitive system / Leonard L. Martin, Fritz Strack, and Diederik A. Stapel Cognitive representations of attachment : the content and function of working models / Nancy L. Collins and Lisa M. Allard The root of all evil in intergroup relations? Unearthing the categorization process / Penelope Oates Stereotypes : content, structures, processes, and context / Don Operario and Susan T. Fiske Category dynamics and the modification of outgroup stereotypes / Myron Rothbart Attributions in close relationships : from Balkanization to integration / Frank D. Fincham Cognition and the development of close relationships / Benjamin R. Karney, James K. McNulty, and Thomas N. Nradbury Language and social cognition / Güen R. Semin Attitudes, norms, and social groups / Joel Cooper, Kimberly A. Kelly, and Kimberlee Weaver Shared cognition in small groups / R. Scott Tindale ... [et al.] Group processes and the construction of social representations / Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi and Alain Clemence How language contributes to persistence of stereotypes as well as other, more general, intergroup issues / Klaus Fiedler and Jeannette Schmid Many of the core concepts of social psychology, including attitudes, the self-concept, stereotypes, and impressions of other persons, are mental representations.