What's Social about Social Cognition? : Research on Socially Shared Cognition in Small Groups

by Judith L. Nye

• ISBN13: 9780803972056
• ISBN10: 0803972059
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-22
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

Cognition research has become a major area within psychology - particularly social psychology. However, social cognitive research tends to focus on the individual, neglecting the impact of social interaction on the individual's cognitive processes, while group process research tends to neglect the cognitive processes of individual group members and their influence on the group.This volume fills these gaps in the literature and brings the two research areas together: contributions from key scholars in both fields offer empirical research that moves beyond the traditional boundaries of social cognition and small group research.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Social Cognition Research and Small Group Research, a West Side Story or...?
Management of Information in Small Groups	p. 3
Salient Group Memberships and Persuasion: The Role of Social Identity in the Validation of Beliefs	p. 29
Socially Shared Cognition at Work: Transactive Memory and Group Performance	p. 57
Social Behavior and Social Cognition: A Parallel Process Approach	p. 87
Heuristic-Based Biases in Estimations of Personal Contributions to Collective Endeavors	p. 106
Followers' Perceptions of Group Leaders: The Impact of Recognition-Based and Inference-Based Processes	p. 124
Perceptual Sets and Stimulus Values: The Social Relations Model in Group Psychotherapy	p. 154
Social Cognition and Self-Concept: A Socially Contextualized Model of Identity	p. 175
The Phenomenology of Being in a Group: Complexity Approaches to Operationalizing Cognitive Representation	p. 205
The Contact Hypothesis: The Role of a Common Ingroup Identity on Reducing Intergroup Bias Among Majority and Minority Group Members	p. 230
Emphasizing the Social Nature of Groups in a Developmental Framework	p. 261
"Social" Cognition and Social Cognition: From the Subjective to the Intersubjective	p. 285
What Is Social About Social Cognition Research?	p. 311
References	p. 324
Author Index	p. 364
Subject Index	p. 373
About the Contributors	p. 392
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