Social Cognition, Marilynn B. Brewer, Miles J. Hewstone (Eds.); Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 368 pages
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Social cognition is a collection of readings from the fourvolume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology which examines the mental representations of social world and the people process social information. It provides relevant case studies and theory on social cognition that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup. The book discusses a wide array of topics such as attitude, perceptual perception, mental representation, memory processing of social information, emotions and stereotypes. Brewer and Hewstone have captured both the expansiveness and conceptual depth of the social cognition. Each paper is followed by a list of reference after the summary and conclusion of the paper being discussed. As social cognition is a study of social information processing, that is, how events and experiences are attended to, encoded, stored in memory and later retrieved for social behavior, the authors have organized the selected reading for this volume around two broad themes. The first part deals with the cognitive representations of the social world and the second part deals with the cognition in social interaction. It shows how cognition takes place and develops within social relationships and other forms of social exchange. There is a gamut of schemes and patterns while we construe reality instead of passively registering our environment. The book unfolds an interesting view that individuals are ‘cognitive optimizers’, that is to say, they have access to a variety of information and they use these selectively in the service of a range of processing objectives and motivations. The first chapter gives a review of basic assumptions regarding representation formation and use. It compares two types of representations – the associative and schema representation. Whereas associative represen-
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cognitive Systems Research
دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009