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Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers from the first Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held at the University of Western Ontario from August 25-27, 1978. The general theme of the symposium was social cognition.
List of contents
Preface.
Part I: Organization and Representation of Social Information 1. The Organization of Social Information
Thomas M. Ostrom, John B. Pryor, David D. Simpson 2. Schematic Principles in Human Memory
Reid Hastie 3. Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing
Shelley E. Taylor and Jennifer Crocker 4. Cognitive Representations of Persons
David L. Hamilton 5. Category Accessibility: Some Theoretical and Empirical Issues Concerning the Processing of Social Stimulus Information
Robert S. Wyer, Jr. and Thomas K. Srull Part II: Processing Factors and Biases in Social Cognition 6. What Grabs You? The Role of Attention in Impression Formation and Causal Attribution
Leslie Zebrowitz McArthur 7. Cognitive Processes in Inferences About A Person's Personality
Ebbe B. Ebbesen 8. Seek, And Ye Shall Find: Testing Hypotheses About Other People
Mark Snyder 9. Self-centered Biases in Attributions of Responsibility: Antecedents and Consequences
Michael Ross 10. Impression Formation, Impression Management, and Nonverbal Behaviors
Robert M. Krauss 11. The "Communication Game": Implications for Social Cognition and Persuasion
E. Tory Higgins Part III: Commentary 12. Social Cognition: A Need to Get Personal
E. Tory Higgins, Nicholas A. Kuiper, James M. Olson. Author Index. Subject Index.
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E. Tory Higgins, C. Peter Herman, Mark P. Zanna
Summary
Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers from the first Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held at the University of Western Ontario from August 25-27, 1978. The general theme of the symposium was social cognition.
