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How do people make sense of each other? How do people make sense of themselves?Social cognition attempts to explain the most fundamental of questions. It looks at why other people are not simply 'objects' to be perceived and how the social world provides dramatic and complex perspectives on the Self and Others.
The subtitle of this book
'From Brains to Culture' reflects the journey that Social Cognition has been on since it first emerged as a dynamic and forward-looking field of research within social psychology. Structured in four clear parts,
Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture begins with a clear outline of the basic concepts before moving into more topical sections: understanding individual selves and others, followed by making sense of society. The authors finish by looking beyond cognition to affect and behaviour.
Challenging and rigorous, yet strikingly accessible, this book is essential reading for all students of social psychology from undergraduate to post-graduate and beyond.
Sommario
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 1: Basic Concepts in Social Cognition
Chapter 2: Dual Modes in Social Cognition
Chapter 3: Attention and Encoding
Chapter 4: Representation in Memory
Part 2: Topics in Social Cognition: Understanding Individual Selves and Others
Chapter 5: Self in Social Cognition
Chapter 6: Attribution processes
Chapter 7: Heuristics and Shortcuts
Chapter 8: Accuracy and Efficiency in Social Interference
Part 3: Making Sense of Society
Chapter 9: Cognitive Structure of Attitudes
Chapter 10: Cognitive Processing of Attitudes
Chapter 11: Stereotyping
Chapter 12: Prejudice
Part 4: Beyond Social Cognition: Affect and Behavior
Chapter 13: From Social Cognition to Affect
Chapter 14: From Affect to Social Cognition
Chapter 15: Behaviour and Cognition
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Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorates, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Universität Basel, Switzerland). She investigates social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes and emotional prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal, and neuro-scientific levels. Author of over 300 publications and winner of numerous scientific awards, she has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Sponsored by a Guggenheim, her 2011 Russell-Sage-Foundation book is
Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us. Her most recent book is
The HUMAN Brand: How We Respond to People, Products, and Companies (with Chris Malone, 2013). With Shelley Taylor, she has written four editions of a classic text:
Social Cognition (2013, 4/e) and on her own, three editions of
Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology (2013, 3/e). She has lately edited
Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom (2008), the
Handbook of Social Psychology (2010, 5/e),
Social Neuroscience (2011), the
Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (2012), and
Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction (2012). Currently an editor of
Annual Review of Psychology, PNAS, and
Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, she is also President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Her graduate students arranged for her to win the University's Mentoring Award, and international advisees arranged for her to win the APS Mentoring Award.
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Challenging and rigorous, yet strikingly accessible, this book offers a complete overview of the field and is essential reading for all students of social psychology from undergraduate to post-graduate and beyond.
