Social Cognition - The Basis of Human Interaction

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.

List 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.

About the author

Fritz Strack, Jens Förster

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Fritz (EDT)/ F÷rster Strack, Fritz (Universitt Wrzburg. Universitat Wur Strack, Fritz Foerster Strack
• Assisted by: Jens Forster (Editor), Jens Förster (Editor), Fritz Strack (Editor), Strack Fritz (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138876743
• ISBN: 978-1-138-87674-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology; Frontiers of Social Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Social, group or collective psychology