Foundations of Social Cognition

Galen V. Bodenhausen, Alan J. Lambert

• Contents: G.V. Bodenhausen, A.J. Lambert, Introduction. W.J. McGuire, The Morphing of Attitude-Change Into Social-Cognition Research. Part I:Elements of Social Cognition.D.L. Hamilton, L. Garcia-Marques, Effects of Expectancies on the Representation, Retrieval, and Use of Social Information. N. Schwarz, H. Bless, M. Wänke, P. Winkielman, Accessibility Revisited. F. Strack, T. Mussweiler, Heuristic Strategies for Estimation Under Uncertainty: The Enigmatic Case of Anchoring. Part II:Perceiving Persons and Groups.D.E. Carlston, L. Mae, The Accidental Tourist: Capturing Incidental (Versus Intentional) Impressions. G.V. Bodenhausen, C.N. Macrae, K. Hugenberg, Activating and Inhibiting Social Identities: Implications for Perceiving the Self and Others. S.J. Sherman, A.L. Johnson, Perceiving Groups: How, What, and Why? A.J. Lambert, A. Chasteen, B.K. Payne, Finding Prejudice in All the Wrong Places: On the Social Facilitation of Stereotypes in Anticipated Public Settings. Part III:Motivational Contexts of Social Cognition.E.T. Higgins, D.C. Molden, How Strategies for Making Judgments and Decisions Affect Cognition: Motivated Cognition Revisited. D.A. Gruenfeld, D.J. Keltner, C. Anderson, The Effects of Power on Those Who Possess It: How Social Structure Can Affect Social Cognition. N. Wyer, Value Conflicts in Intergroup Perception: A Social-Cognitive Perspective.

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