Social Cognition: The Basis of Human Interaction (Frontiers of Social Psychology)

Hardcover, xiv + 331 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Mild handling wear only. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This volume brings together essays from leading researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of social cognition. The work moves beyond a simple catalogue of effects to explore the underlying cognitive processes involved in human interaction. It examines foundational topics such as automatic versus controlled processing, the role of affect and motivation in judgment, and the concept of embodiment. A key theme is the "cognitive toolbox" metaphor, analyzing how individuals flexibly use different mental tools (like heuristics and stereotypes) depending on their goals and the social context. The book serves as a key resource for understanding the move beyond purely 'cold' cognitive models toward a more integrated science of the mind. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. Attention, Perception and Social Cognition / Galen V. Bodenhausen & Kurt Hugenberg; 2. Representing Social Concepts Modally and Amodally / Paula M. Niedenthal, Laurie Mondillon, Daniel A. Effron & Lawrence W. Barsalou; 3. Unconscious, Conscious, and Metaconscious in Social Cognition / Piotr Winkielman & Jonathan W. Schooler; 4. Conversational Inference: Social Cognition as Interactional Intelligence / Denis Hilton; 5. Induction: From Simple Categorization to Higher-Order Inference Problems / Klaus Fiedler & Henning Plessner; 6. Mental Construal in Social Judgment / Norbert Schwarz; 7. Comparison / Thomas Mussweiler; 8. Metacognition / Herbert Bless, Johannes Keller & Eric R. Igou; 9. Intuition / Fritz Strack & Roland Deutsch; 10. Spontaneous Evaluations / Karl Christoph Klauer; 11. Emotion / Roland Neumann; 12. A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Automatic Self-Regulation: The Relevance of Goals in the Information-Processing Sequence / Jens Förster & Markus Denzler; 13. Language and Social Cognition / Gün R. Semin; 14. Culture and Social Cognition in Human Interaction / Bettina Hannover & Ulrich Kühnen; Author Index; Subject Index -- "Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing over the past two decades. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social context. Moreover, social cognition has integrated emotional influences and unconscious processes to reach a more complete understanding of social psychological phenomena. In this volume, the reader will find a representative sample of outstanding research in the field of social cognition. The chapters address its central themes, roughly organized along the temporal axis of information processing. They include basic operations like perception, categorization, representation, and judgmental inferences. Other chapters focus on issues like social comparison, emotion, language and culture. All of the contributors are internationally-renowned experts who share with the reader their accounts of the research experience in each of their domains. Social Cognition: The Basis of Human Interaction is an invaluable resource for researchers requiring a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of the field, and may also be used by intermediate and advanced students of social cognition.". …