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Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing. This book addresses its central themes, organized along the temporal axis of information processing. It includes basic operations like perception, categorization, representation, and judgmental inferences. It is suitable for researchers requiring a overview of the field.

Close Relationships: Functions, Forms and Processes provides an overview of current theory and research in the area of close relationships, written by internationally renowned scholars whose work is at the cutting edge of research in the field.

The contributions to this volume capture the thrill of current work on social influence, as well as providing a tutorial on the scientific and technical aspects of this research.

Gives a complete overview of research and theory on evolutionary approaches to the understanding of social psychological topics.

This volume assembles a distinguished group of international scholars whose chapters on classic and emerging issues in research on attitudes provide an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The book¿s chapters cover all of the most critical features of attitude measurement, attitude development, and attitude change. Implicit and explicit approaches to measurement and conceptualization are featured throughout, making this one of the most up-to-date treatments of attitude theory and research currently available.The comprehensive coverage of the central topics in this important field provides a useful text in advanced courses on persuasion or attitude change.

This volume provides a cutting-edge exposition to research on the self. Sixteen authoritative overviews highlight the role of the self around four themes.Throughout the volume, the exposition is both scholarly and accessible. It also offers critical assessments along with thoughtful discussions of challenges and problems ahead, as well as the generation of novel hypotheses. As such, the book aspires to influence the research agenda for several years to come.

This volume presents a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the great diversity of theoretical interests, new ideas, and practical applications that characterize social psychological approaches to stereotyping and prejudice. All the contributions are written by renowned scholars in the field, with some chapters focusing on fundamental principles, including research questions about the brain structures that help us categorize and judge others, the role of evolution in prejudice, and how prejudice relates to language, communication, and social norms. Several chapters review a new dimension that has frequently been understudied-the role of the social context in creating stereotypes and prejudice. Another set of chapters focuses on applications, particularly how stereotypes and prejudice really matter in everyday life. These chapters include studies of their impact on academic performance, their role in small group processes, and their influence on everyday social interactions. The volume provides an essential resource for students, instructors, and researchers in social and personality psychology, and is also an invaluable reference for academics and professionals in related fields who have an interest in the origins and effects of stereotyping and prejudice.

In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world has become increasingly engaged in thinking about politics, this volume reflects the exciting new work by political psychologists to understand the contemporary functioning of government.

`Metacognition¿ refers to thinking about our own thinking. It has assumed a prominent role in social judgment because our thoughts about our thoughts can magnify, attenuate, or even reverse the impact of primary cognition. Metacognitive thoughts can also produce changes in thought, feeling, and behavior, and thus are critical for a complete understanding of human social behavior.This volume presents and discusses the latest research into metacognition. Specifically, the chapters are organized into four substantive content areas: Attitudes and Decision Making, Self and Identity, Experiential, and Interpersonal. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field, and presents a state-of-the-art view of the many ways in which metacognition has been examined by social psychologists.

Offers a framework that focuses on the psyche of people involved in macro-level destructive intergroup conflicts, involving societies and ethnic groups, that take place continuously in various parts of the globe. This book describes the changes in the socio-psychological repertoire that are necessary to ignite the peace process.

Providing an exposition to research on the self, this book offers critical assessments along with discussions of challenges and problems ahead, as well as the generation of novel hypotheses. It is intended for active researchers in the field, while also being appropriate for use as a textbook in advanced courses on the self.

Why do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do? Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary past? If so, how might this be, and what are the implications? This book reviews and discusses this social psychological phenomena from an evolutionary perspective.

Covers a range of topics including the construal of judgments and decisions, affective and cognitive feelings, social and media influences, and goals and self-regulation. This work is suitable for students, researchers and instructors in social psychology, consumer psychology, consumer behavior and marketing.

This volume explores the complex and contentious political influences within the field of social psychology. It reveals how political biases affect theory development, selection of methodologies, data analysis, and the interpretation of findings.

Includes chapters that cover various critical features of attitude measurement, attitude development, and attitude change. This book features implicit and explicit approaches to measurement and conceptualization.

Consists of three sections - introductory issues; types of relationships; and relationship processes. This book offers an exploration of the functions and benefits of close relationships, examining the various types of close relationships. It is useful for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners.

The art of effective communication can be demanding, because a tricky trade-off problem has to be solved. This work focuses on the tools and repertoires evolved by social communication in order to deal with this demanding trade-off.

Presents an overview of negotiation theory and research with contributions from leaders in social psychology and negotiation research. The topics covered in this volume aim at the understanding of the negotiation process and include: decision-making and judgment, emotion and negotiation, motivation, and game theory.

The role of affect in how people think and behave in social situations has been a source of fascination to laymen and philosophers since time immemorial. This book reviews and integrates the research and theories on this topic, and features contributions reviewing key areas of affect research from leading researchers active in the area.

The many groups we belong to influence our lives in crucial ways.This volume provides a comprehensive overview of classic and contemporary issues in the field of group processes and will interest scholars in various disciplines, including social and organizational psychology, sociology, communication, economics, and political science.

This volume reviews and extends theory and research on the psychology of justice in social contexts. Incorporating many major theories in social psychology, including groundbreaking work from neuroscience, it brings together two traditionally distinct branches of the discipline: social cognition and interpersonal relations.

In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world has become increasingly engaged in thinking about politics, this volume reflects the exciting new work by political psychologists to understand the contemporary functioning of government.

'Negotiation Theory and Research' serves as a comprehensive overview of the topic with original contributions from leaders in social psychology and negotiation research. All topics covered are core to the understanding of the negotiation process.

Teaches the student to: learn how to conduct lab, field and case research on social influence through example by leading researchers; find out about the latest discoveries; discover how seemingly complex issues such as power, rumors, group and minority influence and norms can be investigated using the scientific method; and more.

This volume provides coverage of the latest social-psychological research into consumer behavior, including cognitive and affective processes, media influences, and self-regulation.