Social Cognition

By Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E Taylor

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070211914
• ISBN13: 9780070211919
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive - highly recommend

Social cognition is how people make sense of themselves and others. The area of study encompasses a wide array of topics, such as attitudes, person perception, attention, motivation, self-presentation, memory processing of social information, inference, foundations of emotion, stereotyping, and self-regulation. This book critically evaluates all social cognition theories, evidence, and applications and does it in a readable style.Well-organized, the book is divided into four sections. Section one deals with the "what" of social cognition; two, with the "how"; three, with the cross-fertilization of cognitive psychology and social psychology; and four, with the applications of social cognition research to the real world.Without question "Social Cognition" is the standard, state-of-the-art resource for providing a road map to the fullest and clearest understanding of not only social thinking processes but also the creatures who do the processing.