Beschreibung:
Rainer Greifeneder is professor of Social Psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focuses on various aspects of social cognition, such as the experienced ease or difficulty of thinking, and social exclusion.
The new and fully updated edition of this succesful introductory textbook provides the student with comprehensive coverage of the core topics in the field of social cognition, one of the most important and influential areas of contemporary social psychology.
1. Introduction: What is Social Cognition Research About? 2. General Framework of Social Cognitive Processing 3. Perceiving and Encoding 4. Storing and Retrieving Information 5. Using Information: Controlled and Automatic Processing of Information 6. Using Information: Judgmental Shortcuts 7. The Interplay of Cognition and Feelings: Mood States 8.The Interplay of Cognition and Feelings: Fluency 9. Communicating Information 10. How the Environments Constrains Social Cognitive Processing Glossary References