Social cognition : the basis of human interaction / edited by Fritz Strack and Jens Förster.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Attention, perception, and social cognition / Galen V. Bodenhausen and Kurt Hugenberg -- Representing social concepts modally and amodally / Paula M. Niedenthal [and others] -- Unconscious, conscious, and metaconscious in social cognition / Piotr Winkielman and Jonathan W. Schooler -- Conversational inference: social cognition as interactional intelligence / Denis Hilton -- Induction: from simple categorization to higher-order inference problems / Klaus Fiedler and Henning Plessner -- Mental construal in social judgment / Norbert Schwarz -- Comparison / Thomas Mussweiler -- Metacognition / Herbert Bless, Johannes Keller, and Eric R. Igou -- Intuition / Fritz Strack and Roland Deutsch -- Spontaneous Evaluations / Karl Christoph Klauer -- Emotion / Roland Neumann -- A social-cognitive perspective on automatic self-regulation: the relevance of goals in the information-processing sequence / Jens Förster and Markus Denzler -- Language and social cognition / Gün R. Semin -- Culture and social cognition in human interaction / Bettina Hannover.

"Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing over the past two decades. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social context. Moreover, social cognition has integrated emotional influences and unconscious processes to reach a more complete understanding of social psychological phenomena.

In this volume, the reader will find a representative sample of outstanding research in the field of social cognition. The chapters address its central themes, roughly organized along the temporal axis of information processing. They include basic operations like perception, categorization, representation, and judgmental inferences. Other chapters focus on issues like social comparison, emotion, language and culture. All of the contributors are internationally-renowned experts who share with the reader their accounts of the research experience in each of their domains."--Pub. desc.