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Social Cognition From Brains to Culture

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ISBN-10: 1446258157

ISBN-13: 9781446258156

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Susan T. Fiske, Shelley Kathleen Taylor, Susan T. Fiske, Shelley Kathleen Taylor

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In print for nearly 30 years, Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor's classic Social Cognition textbook has become so celebrated as the essential go-to resource that it is almost synonymous with the field itself. Now, a new edition of the most recent version of the textbook, Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture 2nd Edition, has been released by SAGE for the global market, ready once again to excite a new generation of faculty and students alike. The field of social cognition has exploded in exciting 21st century directions; people making sense of themselves and others creates universally appealing psychological science. In the intervening years since the previous edition, this appeal has…    
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Book details

List price: $37.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 7.32" wide x 9.13" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorates, Universit� Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands). She investigates social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes and emotional prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal, and neuroscientific levels. Author of over 300 publications and winner of numerous scientific awards, she has edited most recently, Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom (2008), the Handbook of Social Psychology (2010, 5/e), the Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (2012), and Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank…    

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Basic Concepts in Social Cognition
Dual Modes in Social Cognition
Attention and Encoding
Representation in Memory
Topics in Social Cognition: From Self to Society
Self in Social Cognition
Attribution Processes
Heuristics and Shortcuts: Efficiency in Inference and Decision Making
Accuracy and Efficiency in Social Inference
Cognitive Structures of Attitudes
Cognitive Processing of Attitudes
Stereotyping: Cognition and Bias
Prejudice: Interplay of Cognitive and Affective Biases
Beyond Cognition
From Social Cognition to Affect
From Affect to Social Cognition
Behavior and Cognition
Glossary
References
Index