What's Social about Social Cognition?
Subtitle: Research on Socially Shared Cognition in Small Groups
Contributors: Judith L. Nye (Editor); Aaron M. Brower (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: May 22, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780803972056
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; Social perception; Social Psychology; Psychology; Sociology; Cognitive Psychology; Social Work; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Psychology-Social Psychology; Social Science / Social Work; Social Science-Social Work; Social groups
First sentence: A jury deliberating a high-profile criminal case, a faculty debating the merits of an educational policy, and friends deciding where to go on a weekend outing are hotbeds of cognitive activity.
Description: Cognition research and theory has become a major focus of attention within academic psychology over the past 15 years. However, most social cognitive research has tended to focus on the social thinker in isolation, neglecting the impact of social interactions on cognition. A cutting-edge collection from integral figures in social cognition and small group fields, What's Social About Social Cognition? fills a lapse in the literature while exploring social phenomena within small groups.

Significantly augmented from a special issue of Small Group Research, this volume answers the demand for a greater social emphasis in social cognition research by examining decision making, prejudices, motivations, emotions, and reciprocal influences between and among small group members. And while the entire book provides a springboard for future research on the social processes and aspects of social cognition, a special chapter anticipates the importance of this new research focus.

. Presenting the latest empirical research at the interface between cognitive and social psychology, this volume will appeal to social and personality psychologists specializing in social cognition as well as group researchers in both applied and theoretical behavioral sciences. What's Social About Social Cognition? will also prove an invaluable textbook for social psychology survey courses that focus on current theories and for research methods courses in which social cognition models are presented.