Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture

By Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E Taylor

Book Overview

How do people make sense of each other? How do people make sense of themselves? Social cognition attempts to explain the most fundamental of questions. It looks at why other people are not simply... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446258157
• ISBN13: 9781446258156
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"

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.