Social Cognition (Perspectives on Social Psychology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405110708 ISBN 13: 9781405110709

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

Social Cognition is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the mental representations that people hold of their social world and the way that social information is processed, stored, and retrieved.

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• Collects readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology and includes introductions by two world-renowned researchers.
  
• Provides a sampling of exciting research and theory on social cognition that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup.
  
• Organized around two broad themes: the cognitive representations of the social world and cognition in social interaction, and designed for course use.

About this title

About the Author

Marilynn B. Brewer is Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University. Her primary research interests include social cognition, intergroup relations, and social identities and the self concept. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Intergroup Relations (with Norman Miller, 1996), and has served as President of the American Psychological Association and as editor of the journal Personality and Social Psychology.

Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology at Oxford University. His current research interests include the reduction of intergroup conflict, intergroup contact, and the social influence of majorities and minorities. He is the author of many books and articles, including Introduction to Social Psychology (edited with Wolfgang Stroebe and Geoffrey M. Stephenson, Third Edition 2001). He is founding co-editor of the European Review of Social Psychology.

From the Back Cover

Social Cognition is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the mental representations that people hold of their social world and the way that social information is processed, stored, and retrieved. The readings have been selected to provide a representative sampling of exciting research and theory on social cognition that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup. The book is organized around two broad themes: the cognitive representations of the social world, focusing on cognitions about the social world; and cognition in social interaction, showing how cognition takes place and develops within social relationships and other forms of social exchange.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405110708
• ISBN 13: 9781405110709
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Brewer Marilynn B., Hewstone Miles