This second volume in a two volume set, provides discussions of the role of information processing in specific areas, such as stereotyping, communication and persuasion, political judgement, close relationships, organizational, clinical and health psychology, and consumer behaviour.
This text examines the processing of information that people encounter in their everyday lives. It proposes a general theory about the way in which information acquired in everyday life is comprehended and represented in memory, and how it is later used as a basis for judgments and decisions. A major emphasis throughout is on the construction and ...
This volume focuses on the type of cognitive activity which concerns life events that have either occurred in the past or are likely to occur in the future. It develops a theoretical formulation of ruminative thinking and the consequences for the performance of daily life activities.
Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and ...
Presents a series of studies assessing whether people recruit specific exemplars or abstract trait summaries when making trait judgments about themselves. The limitations of social cognition paradigms, as methods for studying the representation of long-term social knowledge, are discussed.
This volume presents the area of person impression formulation with a detailed conceptualization of person impressions and the processes that give rise to their construction. The theory attempts to explain where the different kinds of representations come from and how they relate to each other.
The use of social stereotypes as a basis for judgements and behavioural decisions is a major focus of social psychology theory and research. This work's main article accounts for the processes that underlie both the activation of stereotypes and attempts to surpress their influence.
If anyone deserves the title "father of social cognition," it is William J. McGuire who, along with his wife and colleague Claire V. McGuire, has written the target article for this volume. The culmination of many years of work, the article discusses their highly developed theory of human thought systems, and establishes many new directions for ...
In Volume 3, Eliot R. Smith of Purdue University proposes that social cognition theorists have placed excessive emphasis on the role of schemata, prototypes, and various other types of abstractions. This has affected both the methodologies they use and the type of theories they construct. What has not been adequately appreciated is the storage and ...
This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume, which include theoretical approaches to cross-cultural research, the dimensions of national cultures and their ...
The first comprehensive theoretical formulation of the way people use information they receive about their social environments to make judgments and behavioral decisions, this volume focuses on the cognitive processes that underlie the use of social information. These include initial interpretation, the representations used to make inferences, and ...
In their target article, the authors of this book argue that narrative forms of metal representation are the basic ingredients of social knowledge that play a fundamental role in the comprehension of information conveyed in a social context.
The 12th volume of the Advances in Social Cognition series, this book presents and evaluates new theoretical advances in all areas of social cognition and information processing. An entire volume is devoted to each theory, offering evaluation from a variety of perspectives. The series reflects two major characteristics of social cognition: the ...
In this volume, Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: some are highly cognitive in nature; others are automatic and involuntary. Cognitive and associative mechanisms theoretically come into play at different times in the emotion-cognition sequence. The ...
Presents a series of studies assessing whether people recruit specific exemplars or abstract trait summaries when making trait judgments about themselves. The limitations of social cognition paradigms, as methods for studying the representation of long-term social knowledge, are discussed.
This volume presents a new conceptualization of personality and social cognition that addresses both traditional and new issues. Written for students of personality, experimental and consumer psychology and cognitive science.
In this volume, Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: some are highly cognitive in nature; others are automatic and involuntary. Cognitive and associative mechanisms theoretically come into play at different times in the emotion-cognition sequence. The ...
This volume presents a new conceptualization of personality and social cognition that addresses both traditional and new issues. Written for students of personality, experimental and consumer psychology and cognitive science.
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