Social cognition : key readings / edited by David L. Hamilton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social cognition : an introductory overview / David L. Hamilton -- Perceiving the other person / Fritz Heider -- Consequences of schemata for attention, impressions, and recall in complex social interactions / J. Dennis White and Donal E. Carlston -- Stereotypes and tacit inference / David Dunning and David A. Sherman -- We talk, therefore we think? : a cultural analysis of the effect of talking on thinking / Heejung S. Kim -- On bridging the gap between social-personality psychology and neuropsychology / Stanley B. Klein and John F. Kihlstrom -- On perceptual readiness / Jerome S. Bruner -- Concepts and conceptual structure / Douglas L. Medin -- Structural properties of stereotypic knowledge and their influences on the construal of social situations / Bernd Wittenbrink, Pamela L. Gist and James L. Hilton -- The role of category accessibility in the interpretation of information about persons : some determinants and implications / Thomas K. Srull and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. -- Judgment under uncertainty : heuristics and biases / Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman -- Ease of retrieval as information : another look at the availability heuristic / Norbert Schwarz, Fritz Strack, Herbert Bless, Gisela Klumpp, Helga Rittenauer-Schatka and Annette Simons -- Egocentric biases in availability and attribution / Michael Ross and Flore Sicoly -- Telling more than we can know : verbal reports on mental processes / Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy DeCamp Wilson -- The unbearable automaticity of being / John A. Bargh and Tanya L. Chartrand -- Automatic vigilance : the attention-grabbing power of negative social information / Felicia Pratto and Oliver P. John -- The relation between perception and behavior, or how to win a game of Trivial Pursuit / Ap Dijksterhuis and Ad van Knippenberg -- The naive analysis of action / Fritz Heider -- When are social judgments made? : evidence for the spontaneousness of trait inferences / Laraine Winter and James S. Uleman -- Cognitive busyness : when person perceivers meet persons perceived / Daniel T. Gilbert, Brett W. Pelham and Douglas S. Krull -- Social roles, social control, and biases in social-perception processes / Lee D. Ross, Teresa M. Amabile and Julia L. Steinmetz -- Culture and the construal of agency : attribution to individual versus group dispositions / Tanya Menon, Michael W. Morris, Chi-yue Chiu and Ying ̃-- Forming impressions of personality / Solomon E. Asch -- Person memory : some tests of associative storage and retrieval models / Thomas K. Srull -- The relationship between memory and judgment depends on whether the judgment task is memory-based or on-line / Reid Hastie and Bernadette Park -- Perceiving social groups : the importance of the entitativity continuum / David L. Hamilton, Steven J. Sherman and Brian Lickel -- Illusory correlation in interpersonal perception : a cognitive basis of stereotypic judgments / David L. Hamilton and Robert K. Gifford -- A hypothesis-confirming bias in labeling effects / John M. Darley and Paget H. Gross -- The police officer's dilemma : using ethnicity to disambiguate potentially threatening individuals / Joshua Correll, Bernadette Park, Charles M. Judd and Bernd Wittenbrink -- Stereotypes as energy-saving devices : a peek inside the cognitive toolbox / C. Neil Macrae, Alan B. Milne and Galen V. Bodenhausen -- They saw a game : a case study / Albert H. Hastorf and Hadley Cantril -- Motivated inference : self-serving generation and evaluation of causal theories / Ziva Kunda -- Motivated skepticism : use of differential decision criteria for preferred and nonpreferred conclusions / Peter H. Ditto and David F. Lopez -- Biased recollections in older adults : the role of implicit theories of aging / Cathy McFarland, Michael Ross and Mark Giltrow -- Memory for a past that never was / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- The mental simulation of better and worse possible worlds / Keith D. Markman, Igor Gavanski, Steven J. Sherman and Matthew N. McMullen -- When less is more : counterfactual thinking and satisfaction among olympic medalists / Victoria Husted Medvec, Scott F. Madey and Thomas Gilovich -- Social perception and interpersonal behavior : on the self-fulfilling nature of social stereotypes / Mark Snyder, Elizabeth Decker Tanke and Ellen Berscheid -- Focalism : a source of durability bias in affective forecasting / Timothy D. Wilson, Thalia Wheatley, Jonathan M. Meyers, Daniel T. Gilbert and Danny Axsom -- App. How to read a journal article in social psychology / Christian H. Jordan and Mark P. Zanna.

"This collection features articles that have shown a significant impact on the field of social cognition. The articles are organized into eight major sections: (1) social information processing; (2) cognitive representation of social information; (3) activation and use of cognitive representations; (4) nonconscious and automatic processing; (5) impression formation and judgment; (6) dispositional inference and attribution; (7) goals and motivated processing, and (8) reconstructing the past and future issues. The organization of the book reflects a comprehensive overview of the field of social cognition."--Publisher description.

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