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