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1. Social Comprehension and Judgment

   The Role of Situation Models, Narratives, and Implicit Theories

   By Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Written by one of the foremost authorities in social cognition, Social Comprehension and Judgment examines how people process information encountered in their everyday lives. In the book, Dr. Wyer proposes a new theory about the way in which information acquired in everyday life is comprehended and...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Perspectives on Behavioral Self-Regulation

   Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XII

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

   The feedback model of self-regulation developed by the authors of the lead article in this volume has been one of the most successful theoretical formulations of regulatory processes to date. The range of phenomena to which this framework potentially applies is evident from its ability to...

   Published September 11th 1999 by Psychology Press
3. Perspectives on Behavioral Self-Regulation

   Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XII

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

   The feedback model of self-regulation developed by the authors of the lead article in this volume has been one of the most successful theoretical formulations of regulatory processes to date. The range of phenomena to which this framework potentially applies is evident from its ability to...

   Published July 31st 1999 by Psychology Press
4. Stereotype Activation and Inhibition

   Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XI

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

   The use of social sterotypes as a basis for judgments and behavioral decisions has been a major focus of social psychological theory and research since the field began. Although motivational and cognitive influences on stereotyping have been considered, these two general types of influence have...

   Published April 30th 1998 by Psychology Press
5. The Automaticity of Everyday Life

   Advances in Social Cognition, Volume X

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

   As Skinner argued so pointedly, the more we know about the situational causes of psychological phenomena, the less need we have for postulating internal conscious mediating processes to explain those phenomena. Now, as the purview of social psychology is precisely to discover those situational...

   Published February 28th 1997 by Psychology Press
6. Ruminative Thoughts

   Advances in Social Cognition, Volume IX

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

   Until recently, most theory and research in social information processing has focused attention on the cognitive activity that underlies responses to stimulus information presented in the immediate situation being investigated. In contrast, people's thoughts outside the laboratory often concern...

   Published December 31st 1995 by Psychology Press
7. Knowledge and Memory: the Real Story

   Advances in Social Cognition, Volume VIII

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

   Narrative forms of mental representation and their influence on comprehension, communication and judgment, have rapidly become one of the main foci of research and theory in not only psychology but also other disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, and anthropology. No one has been more...

   Published May 31st 1995 by Psychology Press
8. Associated Systems Theory: A Systematic Approach to Cognitive Representations of Persons

   Advances in Social Cognition, Volume VII

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

   Series: Advances in Social Cognition Series

   From its inception, the purpose of the Advances in Social Cognition series has been to present and evaluate new theoretical advances in all areas of social cognition and information processing. An entire volume is devoted to each theory, allowing the theory to be evaluated from a variety of...

   Published September 30th 1994 by Psychology Press
9. Handbook of Social Cognition, Second Edition

   Volume 1: Basic Processes Volume 2: Applications

   Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Thomas K. Srull

   This edition of the Handbook follows the first edition by 10 years. The earlier edition was a promissory note, presaging the directions in which the then-emerging field of social cognition was likely to move. The field was then in its infancy and the areas of research and theory that came to...

   Published April 30th 1994 by Psychology Press
10. Handbook of Social Cognition, Second Edition

    Volume 1: Basic Processes Volume 2: Applications

    Edited by Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Thomas K. Srull

    This edition of the Handbook follows the first edition by 10 years. The earlier edition was a promissory note, presaging the directions in which the then-emerging field of social cognition was likely to move. The field was then in its infancy and the areas of research and theory that came to...

    Published April 30th 1994 by Psychology Press