Table of Contents

Part One: History and Foundations of Social Cognition

1. On the Nature of Social Cognition; My Defining Moment
Donal E. Carlston

2. The Emergence of Social Cognition
David L. Hamilton and Donal E. Carlston

3. Measurement and Methodology in Social Cognition: An Historical Perspective
Alan J. Lambert and Laura Scherer

4. A Brief History of Theory and Research on Impression Formation
James S. Uleman and Laura M. Kressel

5. Automaticity and Control in Stereotyping and Prejudice: The Revolutionary Role of Social Cognition Across Three Decades of Research
Margo J. Monteith, Anna Woodcock, and Jill E. Lybarger

6. Attribution as a Gateway to Social Cognition
Glenn D. Reeder

7. Attitudes and Social Cognition as Social Psychological Siblings
Duane T. Wegener and Richard E. Petty

Part Two: Mental Representation and Information Processing

8. The Role of Visual Imagery in Social Cognition
Lisa K. Libby and Richard P. Eibach

9. Faces are Central to Social Cognition
Kurt Hugenberg and John Paul Wilson

10. The Highs and Lows of Mental Representation: A Construal Level Perspective on the Structure of Knowledge
SoYon Rim, Yaacov Trope, Nira Liberman, and Oren Shapira

11. Implicit Social Cognition and Mental Representation
B. Keith Payne and C. Daryl Cameron

12. Automaticity
Ap Dijksterhuis

13. The Role of Procedural Knowledge in the Generalizeability of Social Behavior
Robert S. Wyer Jr., Hao Shen, and Alison Jing Xu

14. Dual-Process Theories
Bertram Gawronski and Laura A. Creighton

15. The "Cold" and "Hot" Sides of Attention
Daniel Smilek and Alexandra Frischen

16. On Misers, Managers, and Monsters: The Social Cognition of Visual Perception
Emily Balcetis and Shana Cole

17. Person Memory: Past, Perspectives, and Prospects
John J. Skowronski, Randy J. McCarthy, and Brett M. Wells

18. Judgment and Decision Making
Leaf Van Boven, Mark Travers, Jacob Westfall, and Gary McClelland

19. Mental Simulation: Looking Back in Order to Look Ahead
Keith D. Markman and Elizabeth A. Dyczewski

20. Thought Suppression
Sadia Najmi

Part Three: Social Cognition and Social Psychology

21. Moods, Emotions, and Evaluations as Information
Linda M. Isbell and Elicia C. Lair

22. Motivated Remembering: Remembering as Accessibility and Accessibility as Motivational Relevance
Baruch Eitam, David B. Miele, and E. Tory Higgins

23. The Mind in Motivation: A Social Cognitive Perspective on the Role of Consciousness in Goal Pursuit
Melissa Ferguson and Jeremy Cone

24. The Social Cognition of the Self
Allen R. McConnell, Christina M. Brown, and Tonya M. Shoda

25. Cherished Memories: Autobiographical Memory and the Self
Denise R. Beike

26. Self-evaluation and Self-esteem
Mark R. Leary and Meredith L. Terry

27. Stereotype Development and Formation
Steven J. Sherman, Jeffrey W. Sherman, Elise J. Percy, and Courtney K. Soderberg

28. Social Power and Cognition
Ana Guinote

29. Interpersonal Cognition: Seeking, Understanding, and Maintaining Relationships
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons and Joanna Anderson

30. Group Cognition: Collective Information Search and Distribution
John M. Levine and Eliot R. Smith

Part Four: Synergies with Other Realms of Social Science

31. Interfacing Body, Mind, the Physical, and Social World: Socially Situated Cognition
Gün R. Semin, Margarida V. Garrido, and Tomás Palma

32. Evolutionary Social Cognition
Steven L. Neuberg, D. Vaughn Becker, and Douglas T. Kenrick

33. Mortal Cognition: Viewing Self and the World from the Precipice
Jeff Greenberg, Mark J. Landau, and Jamie Arndt

34. The Neuroscience of Social Cognition
David M. Amodio and Kyle G. Ratner

35. Communication and Language Use in Social Cognition
Yoshihisa Kashima and Ying Lan

36. Social Cognitive Development: Learning from Others
Gail D. Heyman and Cristine H. Legare

37. Culture and Social Cognition
Chi-yue Chiu, Sharon S-L. Ng, and Evelyn W-M. Au

38. The Person-Situation Interaction
John F. Kihlstrom

39. Consumer Information Processing
Frank R. Kardes and Robert S. Wyer Jr.

40. Law and Social Cognition
Barbara A. Spellman and Frederick Schauer

41. "Hot" Political Cognition: Its Self-, Group-, and System-Serving Purposes
John T. Jost, Erin P. Hennes, and Howard Lavine

42. Social Cognition and Health
Shelley E. Taylor

43. Trends in Social Cognition Research
Donal E. Carlston and Erica D. Schneid

About the Author

Donald E. Carlston, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, and Past Editor, Journal of Social Cognition.

Reviews

"The study of social cognition began with the application of theories and methods borrowed from cognitive psychology for the study of social behavior. It quickly became a popular and prolific subfield of social psychology. Carlston rightly wonders if 'subfield' satisfies as a description, as social cognition is also a perspective, point of view, orientation, approach, even a philosophy of doing social-psychological research. This expansive, 43-chapter handbook
has four sections examining the topic's history and foundations, mental representation and information processing, social cognition and social psychology, and synergy with other areas of psychology and
the social sciences. Those interested in social psychology will want to consult this fine work. Summing up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -D.S. Dunn, CHOICE
"This book provides a comprehensive and current review of major topics in social cognition. This is an important, extensive, and I would add, foundational work on the most important aspects of social psychology, particularly in the relatively new and growing area of social cognition. We commend the editor for his efforts in gathering material from contributors, organizing, and presenting it in this valuable volume." -Nano Khilnani, Biz India
"This amazingly comprehensive volume showcases the emergence of the social cognition perspective and the wide variety of domains of inquiry that have been illuminated by the approach." -Russell H. Fazio, Ohio State University
"...almost all of the major thinkers in this field have contributed chapters that are innovative, erudite, and enjoyable to read." -Reid Hastie, Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business
"The breadth and depth of the contributions to this seminal volume illustrate the explanatory, integrative and generative reach of the social cognition approach to human behavior." -Diane Mackie, University of California at Santa Barbara