Social Cognition (McGraw-Hill Series in Social Psychology) - Softcover

Fiske, Susan T.; Taylor, Shelley E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071009108 ISBN 13: 9780071009102

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions), 1991

Synopsis

The text is designed to provide a critical overview of the theories and methods in the newly emerging field of social cognition. The major theme of the book is that normal cognitive processes account for much of how people understand themselves and others. In basic research, social cognition theories of attribution, psychological control, social schemata, attention, person memory, and social inference have become central to the field. In a recent poll, social psychologists predicted that topics within a cognitive approach would be the most popular research area in the coming decade.

About this title

Book Description:

This is a revision of a market leader in social cognition written by two well known and respected authors. The text is designed to provide a critical overview of the theories and methods in the newly emerging field of social cognition. The major theme of the book is that normal coginitive processes account for much of how people understand themselves and others. In basic research, social cognition theories of attibution, psychological control, social schemata, attention, person memory, and social inference have become central to the field. In a recent poll, social psychologists predicted that topics within a cognitive approach would be the most popular research area in the coming decade.

About the Author:

Shelley E. Taylor is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. After a visiting professorship at Yale and assistant and associate professorships at Harvard University, she joined the faculty of UCLA in 1979. Her research interests are in health psychology, especially the factors that promote long-term psychological adjustment, and in social cognition. In the former capacity, she is the codirector of the Health Psychology program at UCLA. Professor Taylor is the recipient of a number of awards, most notably the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology Award, a 10-year Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, and an Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award in Health Psychology. She is the author of more than 200 publications in journals and books and is also the author of Social Cognition, Positive Illusions, and The Tending Instinct.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0071009108
• ISBN 13: 9780071009102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 717