What distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading candidate is our facility at mutual understanding ("theory of mind"), our ability to ascribe thoughts, desires, and feelings to one another. How do we do this? Folk-wisdom says, "By empathy -- we put ourselves in other p…
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…
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…
"Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes offers a state-of-the-art review of the evidence and theory supporting the existence and the significance of automatic processes in our daily lives, with chapters by the leading researchers in th…
"Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes offers a state-of-the-art review of the evidence and theory supporting the existence and the significance of automatic processes in our daily lives, with chapters by the leading researchers in th…
"This new book deals directly with how people cope with uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented), others are more likely to avoid uncertainty, preferring the familiar …
"This new book deals directly with how people cope with uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented), others are more likely to avoid uncertainty, preferring the familiar …
Social metacognition
by Briñol, Pablo, DeMarree, Kenneth G.
fromFrontiers of social psychology
The automaticity of everyday life
by Bargh, John A., Wyer, Robert S.
fromAdvances in social cognition
The automaticity of everyday life
by Bargh, John A., Wyer, Robert S.
fromAdvances in social cognition
"What is central to our ability to interpret one another? A great deal of work in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, anthropology, developmental psychology and a host of other disciplines assumes that, at root, interpersonal interpretation is accomplished through the employm…
What is central to our ability to interpret one another? This work includes contributions which maintain that understandings of folk psychology and of the mechanisms that underlie it need to be revised, supplemented or dismissed altogether.