Social cognition

"Social cognition" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Approaches to studying the social thinker
• 2- Ebb & flow of cognition in psychology & neuroscience
• 3- What is social cognition?
• 4- People are not things
• 5- Cultures matter
• 6- Brains matter
• 7- Basic concepts in social cognition
• 8- Dual modes in social cognition
• 9- Automatic processes
• 10- Controlled processes
• 11- Motivations influence which modes operate
• 12- Models of both automatic and controlled processes
• 13- Attention and encoding : what gets into our heads
• 14- Salience : a property of stimuli in context
• 15- Vividness : an inherent property of stimuli
• 16- Accessibility : a property of categories in our heads
• 17- Direct perception : not just in our heads
• 18- Faces : the focus of social attention
• 19- Representation in memory
• 20- Associative networks organizing memory
• 21- Procedural and declarative memory : what memory does
• 22- Parallel versus serial processing : coordinating memory processes
• 23- Embodied memory
• 24- Interim summary of memory models
• 25- Social memory structures : why social memory matters
• 26- Topics in social cognition : from self to society
• 27- Self
• 28- Mental representations of the self
• 29- Self-regulation
• 30- Motivation and self-regulation
• 31- The self as a reference point
• 32- Causal attribution processes
• 33- What is attribution theory?
• 34- Early contributions to attribution theory
• 35- Processes underlying attribution
• 36- Attributional biases
• 37- Heuristics
• 38- What are heuristics?
• 39- When are heuristics used and when do they lead to wrong answers?
• 40- Judgments over time
• 41- Accuracy and efficiency in social judgment
• 42- Errors and biases as consequential : improving the inference process
• 43- Errors and biases in social inference : perhaps they don't matter?
• 44- Are rapid judgments sometimes better than thoughtfully-considered ones?
• 45- Neuroeconomics : back to the future?
• 46- Cognitive structures of attitudes
• 47- Background
• 48- Cognitive features of two consistency theories
• 49- Lay theories and attitude change
• 50- Functional dimensions of attitudes
• 51- Cognitive processing of attitudes
• 52- Heuristic-systematic model
• 53- Peripheral vs. central routes to persuasion : elaboration likelihood model
• 54- Motivation and opportunity determine attitude processes mode model
• 55- Implicit associations
• 56- Embodied attitudes
• 57- Neural correlates of attitudes
• 58- Stereotyping a central topic in social cognition
• 59- Introduction
• 60- Blatant bias
• 61- Subtle bias
• 62- Effects of bias
• 63- Prejudice : interplay of cogntive and affective biases
• 64- Intergroup cognition and emotion
• 65- Racial prejudice
• 66- Gender prejudice
• 67- Age prejudice
• 68- Sexual prejudice
• 69- From social cognition to affect
• 70- Differentiating among affects, preferences, evaluations, moods, emotions
• 71- Early theories
• 72- Physiological and neuroscience theories of emotion
• 73- Social cognitive foundations of affect
• 74- From affect to social cognition
• 75- Affective influences on cognition
• 76- Individual differences in the affect-cognition interplay
• 77- Affect versus cognition
• 78- Behavior and cognition
• 79- Goal-directed behavior
• 80- When are cognitions and behavior related?
• 81- Using behavior for impression management
• 82- Using behavior to test hypotheses about others.

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