This provocative book challenges conventional thinking that stereotypes are always inaccurate, exaggerated, and generally destructive by daring to look at stereotyping empirically. The chapters provide insights into how stereotyping may help us manage information without necessa…
Cognition research and theory has become a major focus of attention within academic psychology over the past 15 years. However, most social cognitive research has tended to focus on the social thinker in isolation, neglecting the impact of social interactions on cognition. A cut…
This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations acros…
This book brings together the latest empirical and theoretical findings in social identity and social categorization, providing an invaluable overview of this important field. A broad range of psychosocial phenomena are explored.
Social perception from individuals to groups
This volume focuses on social perception, the processing of information about people. This issue has always been central to social psychology, but this book brings together literatures that in large part have been separated by the nature of the social target that is involved. Hi…
Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, …
The automaticity of everyday life
by Bargh, John A., Wyer, Robert S.
fromAdvances in social cognition
An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of narratives. --From publis…
Every Decade has seen work that extends or challenges previous thinking on facial expression. The Science of Facial Expression provides an updated review of the current psychology of facial expression, summarizing current conclusion and conceptual frameworks from leading figures…
Socially situated thought and behaviour are pervasive and vitally important in human society. The social brain has become a focus of study for researchers in the neurosciences, psychology, biology and other areas of behavioural science, and it is becoming increasingly clear that…
His book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. It offers a comprehensive review of the research which has been condu…
This text highlights the roles the concepts of intentionality play in social cognition. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it offers work from researchers in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology and in philosophy, primatology, and law.