Social Cognition

This volume provides comprehensive coverage of social cognition from worldwide leaders in the field, whose chapters combine an overview of seminal research with the state-of-the-art in this central topic in social psychology.

Fritz Strack, Jens Förster

Social Cognition: An Introduction. Attention, Perception and Social Cognition. Representing Social Concepts Modally and Amodally. Unconscious, Conscious, and Metaconscious in Social Cognition. Conversational Inference: Social Cognition as Interactional Intelligence. From Simple Categorization to Higher-Order Inference Problems. Mental Construal in Social Judgment. Social Comparison. Metacognition. Spontaneous Evaluations. Emotion. A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Automatic Self Regulation: The Relevance of Goals in the Information Processing Sequence. Language and Social Cognition. Culture and Social Cognition in Human Interaction.