Approaches to studying the social thinker
Ebb & flow of cognition in psychology & neuroscience
What is social cognition?
People are not things
Cultures matter
Brains matter
Basic concepts in social cognition
Dual modes in social cognition
Automatic processes
Controlled processes
Motivations influence which modes operate
Models of both automatic and controlled processes
Attention and encoding : what gets into our heads
Salience : a property of stimuli in context
Vividness : an inherent property of stimuli
Accessibility : a property of categories in our heads
Direct perception : not just in our heads
Faces : the focus of social attention
Representation in memory
Associative networks organizing memory
Procedural and declarative memory : what memory does
Parallel versus serial processing : coordinating memory processes
Embodied memory
Interim summary of memory models
Social memory structures : why social memory matters
Topics in social cognition : from self to society
Self
Mental representations of the self
Self-regulation
Motivation and self-regulation
The self as a reference point
Causal attribution processes
What is attribution theory?
Early contributions to attribution theory
Processes underlying attribution
Attributional biases
Heuristics
What are heuristics?
When are heuristics used and when do they lead to wrong answers?
Judgments over time
Accuracy and efficiency in social judgment
Errors and biases as consequential : improving the inference process
Errors and biases in social inference : perhaps they don't matter?
Are rapid judgments sometimes better than thoughtfully-considered ones?
Neuroeconomics : back to the future?
Cognitive structures of attitudes
Background
Cognitive features of two consistency theories
Lay theories and attitude change
Functional dimensions of attitudes
Cognitive processing of attitudes
Heuristic-systematic model
Peripheral vs. central routes to persuasion : elaboration likelihood model
Motivation and opportunity determine attitude processes mode model
Implicit associations
Embodied attitudes
Neural correlates of attitudes
Stereotyping a central topic in social cognition
Introduction
Blatant bias
Subtle bias
Effects of bias
Prejudice : interplay of cogntive and affective biases
Intergroup cognition and emotion
Racial prejudice
Gender prejudice
Age prejudice
Sexual prejudice
From social cognition to affect
Differentiating among affects, preferences, evaluations, moods, emotions
Early theories
Physiological and neuroscience theories of emotion
Social cognitive foundations of affect
From affect to social cognition
Affective influences on cognition
Individual differences in the affect-cognition interplay
Affect versus cognition
Behavior and cognition
Goal-directed behavior
When are cognitions and behavior related?
Using behavior for impression management
Using behavior to test hypotheses about others.
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Social cognition : from brains to culture by Susan T. Fiske. ISBN 9780073405520. Published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
