Social cognition
Subtitle: from brains to culture
By: Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor.
Contributors: Taylor, Shelley E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780073405520
Subjects: Social perception; Cognitive neuroscience
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-500) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Approaches to studying the social thinker; title: Ebb & flow of cognition in psychology & neuroscience; title: What is social cognition?; title: People are not things; title: Cultures matter; title: Brains matter; title: Basic concepts in social cognition; title: Dual modes in social cognition; title: Automatic processes; title: Controlled processes; title: Motivations influence which modes operate; title: Models of both automatic and controlled processes; title: Attention and encoding : what gets into our heads; title: Salience : a property of stimuli in context; title: Vividness : an inherent property of stimuli; title: Accessibility : a property of categories in our heads; title: Direct perception : not just in our heads; title: Faces : the focus of social attention; title: Representation in memory; title: Associative networks organizing memory; title: Procedural and declarative memory : what memory does; title: Parallel versus serial processing : coordinating memory processes; title: Embodied memory; title: Interim summary of memory models; title: Social memory structures : why social memory matters; title: Topics in social cognition : from self to society; title: Self; title: Mental representations of the self; title: Self-regulation; title: Motivation and self-regulation; title: The self as a reference point; title: Causal attribution processes; title: What is attribution theory?; title: Early contributions to attribution theory; title: Processes underlying attribution; title: Attributional biases; title: Heuristics; title: What are heuristics?; title: When are heuristics used and when do they lead to wrong answers?; title: Judgments over time; title: Accuracy and efficiency in social judgment; title: Errors and biases as consequential : improving the inference process; title: Errors and biases in social inference : perhaps they don't matter?; title: Are rapid judgments sometimes better than thoughtfully-considered ones?; title: Neuroeconomics : back to the future?; title: Cognitive structures of attitudes; title: Background; title: Cognitive features of two consistency theories; title: Lay theories and attitude change; title: Functional dimensions of attitudes; title: Cognitive processing of attitudes; title: Heuristic-systematic model; title: Peripheral vs. central routes to persuasion : elaboration likelihood model; title: Motivation and opportunity determine attitude processes mode model; title: Implicit associations; title: Embodied attitudes; title: Neural correlates of attitudes; title: Stereotyping a central topic in social cognition; title: Introduction; title: Blatant bias; title: Subtle bias; title: Effects of bias; title: Prejudice : interplay of cogntive and affective biases; title: Intergroup cognition and emotion; title: Racial prejudice; title: Gender prejudice; title: Age prejudice; title: Sexual prejudice; title: From social cognition to affect; title: Differentiating among affects, preferences, evaluations, moods, emotions; title: Early theories; title: Physiological and neuroscience theories of emotion; title: Social cognitive foundations of affect; title: From affect to social cognition; title: Affective influences on cognition; title: Individual differences in the affect-cognition interplay; title: Affect versus cognition; title: Behavior and cognition; title: Goal-directed behavior; title: When are cognitions and behavior related?; title: Using behavior for impression management; title: Using behavior to test hypotheses about others.