Social Cognition Books

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11. Social Judgment and Decision Making

    Edited by Joachim I. Krueger

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What...

    Published October 17th 2011 by Psychology Press
12. The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience

    By Jamie Ward

    Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the...

    Published October 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
13. Theories of Team Cognition

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Eduardo Salas, Stephen M. Fiore, Michael P. Letsky

    Series: Applied Psychology Series

    Cognitive processes in teams have been a valuable arena for team researchers to explore. Team cognition research advances and informs a variety of disciplines, including cognitive and social sciences, engineering, military science, organizational science, human factors, medicine, and communications...

    Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
14. Trust and Conflict

    Representation, Culture and Dialogue

    Edited by Ivana Marková, Alex Gillespie

    Series: Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation

    Trust, distrust and conflict between social groups have existed throughout the history of humankind, although their forms have changed. Using three main concepts: culture, representation and dialogue, this book explores and re-thinks some of these changes in relation to concrete historical and...

    Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
15. Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations

    A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer

    Edited by Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston

    Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

    Perhaps the defining feature of humanity is the social condition -- how we think about others, identify ourselves with others, and interact with groups of others. The advances of evolutionary theory, social cognition, social identity, and intergroup relations, respectively, as major fields of...

    Published May 24th 2011 by Psychology Press
16. The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change

    Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper, William D. Crano

    Series: Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology

    Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying...

    Published May 18th 2010 by Psychology Press
17. Symbolic Transformation

    The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society

    Edited by Brady Wagoner

    Series: Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation

    This book brings together scholars from around the world to address the question of how culture and mind are related through symbols: it is through the mediation of symbols that we think, act, imagine, feel, dream and remember. Thus, to understand the structure, function and development of symbols...

    Published November 22nd 2009 by Routledge
18. Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

    Edited by Mark Schaller, Ara Norenzayan, Steven J. Heine, Toshio Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kameda

    An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted...

    Published September 1st 2009 by Psychology Press
19. Social Cognition

    The Basis of Human Interaction

    Edited by Fritz Strack, Jens Förster

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing over the past two decades. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social context. Moreover, social cognition has...

    Published March 5th 2009 by Psychology Press
20. Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

    Edited by Todd D. Nelson

    This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent prejudice researchers who explore key topics, by presenting an overview of current research and, where appropriate,...

    Published February 16th 2009 by Psychology Press