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1. Social Thinking and Interpersonal Behavior

   Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Klaus Fiedler, Constantine Sedikides

   Series: Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology

   The connection between mental and social life remains one of the most intriguing topics in all of psychology. This book reviews some of the most recent advances in research exploring the links between how people think and behave in interpersonal situations. The chapters represent a variety of...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
2. Stereotype Dynamics

   Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes

   Edited by Yoshihisa Kashima, Klaus Fiedler, Peter Freytag

   This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. Stereotype Dynamics assembles top researchers in the field to investigate stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation...

   Published August 29th 2007 by Psychology Press
3. Social Communication

   Edited by Klaus Fiedler

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   This volume is devoted to the fascinating topic of social communication - fascinating because communication is ubiquitous, in that one cannot not communicate. And yet, the art of effective communication can be extremely demanding and elusive, because a tricky trade-off problem has to be solved. For...

   Published January 14th 2007 by Psychology Press
4. Social Cognition

   How Individuals Construct Social Reality

   By Herbert Bless, Klaus Fiedler, Fritz Strack

   Series: Social Psychology: A Modular Course

   How do people think about the world? How do individuals make sense of their complex social environment? What are the underlying mechanisms that determine our understanding of the social world? Social cognition - the study of the specific cognitive processes that are involved when we think about...

   Published November 17th 2003 by Psychology Press
5. Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing

   By Klaus Fiedler, Eva Walther

   Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology

   Traditional social hypotheses have a built-in tendency to verify themselves and so involuntarily resist attempts at stereotype change or correction. This is the insight demonstrated and discussed as the start point for an alternative approach to the problem of stereotyping and hypothesis testing....

   Published November 5th 2003 by Psychology Press