Social Cognition by Pennington, Donald C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Halftitle Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction to social cognition

What is social cognition? Social cognition and social psychology Social cognition and cognitive psychology Historical perspective Three principles of social cognition People as cognitive misers Spontaneous and deliberative thought

Self-esteem Critical comment About this book Summary Further reading

2. Attribution of causality I: concepts and theories

What are attributions? The basics Internal and external causes Spontaneous and deliberative attributions Voluntary and non-voluntary behaviour Theories of attribution Correspondent inference theory The covariation model Causal schemata model Weiner’s model of attributions for success and failure

Comparison of the theories Individual differences Cultural differences Overall evaluation of concepts and models Summary Further reading

3. Attribution of causality II: Accuracy and error

Causal inferences and accuracy The fundamental attribution error Actor-observer differences Reversing actor-observer differences The false consensus effect Self-serving biases Group bias Attributions of responsibility Cross-cultural perspectives on bias and error Evaluation of attributional biases and errors Summary Further reading

4. Social perception: Impression formation, social schemas and social representations

What is social perception? Impression formation The importance of first impressions Central and peripheral traits Primacy and recency effects Impression management Accuracy in social perception Social schemas Person schemas Self-schemas Role schemes Event schemas Social schemas as stereotypes Social schemas and impression formation Social schemas and self-fulfilling prophecies The cognitive miser and the heuristics of thinking The availability heuristic The representativeness heuristic The anchoring and adjustment heuristic Social representations Understanding social representations

Social representations and social schemas Summary Further reading

5. Prejudice and discrimination: Origins, maintenance and reduction

A social problem Racism and sexism: old and new The role of stereotypes The stereotype rebound effect Stereotypes and expectations Realistic group conflict Sherif’s ‘Robber’s Cave’ experiment Group membership The minimal group paradigm Social identity theory Self-categorisation theory Outgroup homogeneity Relative deprivation theory Individual approaches The authoritarian personality Frustration and aggression Reducing prejudice and discrimination Setting superordinate goals The contact hypothesis

Recategorisation Summary Further reading

6. Social cognition: Development, extensions and applications

Introduction Social cognition and child development Attributional development Development of social representations Extensions Terror management theory: self-esteem and prejudice Prejudice and everyday communications Extensions Attribution and health

Attribution and sport Summary Further reading

7. Study aids

Improving Your Essay Writing Skills Key Research Summaries

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Glossary Bibliography Index