040 __ |a UKMGB |b eng |c UKMGB |e rda |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d YDX |d BDX |d XFF |d CNKUC |d CNTAB |d OCLCO |d YDX |d AMH |d OSU |d UtOrBLW

245 10 |a Social cognition : |b understanding people and events / |c David L. Hamilton & Steven J. Stroessner

264 _1 |a London ; |a Los Angeles ; |a Thousand Oaks, Calif. : |b SAGE Publications, |c 2021

505 0_ |a Processing social information: A conceptual framework -- Cognitive representations: Structures of the mind -- Automatic processing: Doing more than we know -- Attention: The mind's eye meets the social world -- Interpretation: Making meaning -- Evaluation: Judging good and bad -- Inference: Going beyond the obvious -- Attribution: Understanding why things happen -- Judgement: Reasoning and decision making -- Memory: Storage and retrieval -- The time dimension: Understanding the past, anticipating the future -- Social cognition and action: Thinking and doing

520 __ |a Social cognition is an approach to understanding how people think about people and events. We are constantly processing information to navigate the world we live in. The authors will guide your students, using examples and up-to-date studies, through this approach; from explaining the processes themselves right through to demonstrating the role cognitive processes play in our social lives. This book will provide your students with a framework for understanding the most common areas of interest for Social Cognition, such as perception, attitudes and stereotyping