The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition

by Susan T Fiske

• ISBN13: 9780857024817
• ISBN10: 0857024817
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition is a landmark volume. Edited by two of the field's most eminent academics over the past two decades and supported by a global advisory board of similar magnitude, the 56 authors, each an expert in their own chapter topic, provide authoritative and thought-provoking overviews of this fascinating territory of research. Not since the early 1990s has a Handbook been published in this field, one that has just exploded in terms of published literature and methodological developments since that time. Now, Fiske and Macrae have provided a timely and seminal benchmark; a state of the art overview that will benefit advanced students and academics not just within social psychology but beyond these borders too. The Handbook is divided into four sections. Following an introductory piece by Neil Macrae looking at the 'uniqueness of social cognition', the second section explores basic and underlying processes of social cognition, from implicit social cognition and consciousness and meta-cognition to judgment and decision-making. The third explores the wide-ranging applications of social cognition research in 'the real world' from the burgeoning and relatively recent fields of social cognitive development and social cognitive aging to the social cognition of relationships. Finally, the fourth section is a critical and exciting exploration of the future directions in this field written by Susan Fiske. The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition will be an indispensable volume for any advanced student or academic wanting or needing to understand the landscape of social cognition research in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Revisiting the Sovereignty of Social Cognition: Finally Some Action

Control, Awareness, and Other Things We Might Learn to Live Without

Implicit Social Cognition

Consciousness, Metacognition and the Unconscious

Goals, Motivated Social Cognition and Behaviour

The Social Perception of Faces

Mind Perception

Socially Situated Cognition: Recasting Social Cognition as an Emergent Phenomenon

Likes and Dislikes: a Social Cognitive Perspective on Attitudes

Non-Verbal Perception

Embodied Social Thought: Linking Social Concepts, Emotion, and Gesture

Levels of Mental Construal

Judgment and Decision Making

Cognition and Action in the Social World

Social Cognitive Psychology of Emotion

Social Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups

Self-Evaluation and Self-Knowledge

Social Cognition in Close Relationships

Social Cognitive Development

Social Cognitive Aging

Atypical Social Cognition

Social Cognition In Real Worlds: Cultural Psychology and Social Cognition

Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition

Thinkers' Personalities: On Individual Differences in the Processes of Sense Making

Ideological Processes

Gene x Environment Interactions in Social Cognition

'One Word: Plasticity' - Social Cognition's Futures

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