Social cognition : from brains to culture / Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor.

Author
Fiske, Susan T. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, ©2008.
Description
xii, 540 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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        Subject(s)
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-500) and indexes.
        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.
        ISBN
        • 9780073405520 ((alk. paper))
        • 0073405523 ((alk. paper))
        LCCN
        2007018062
        OCLC
        124025222
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