Social Cognition Books

New and Published Books

1. Face Perception

   By Vicki Bruce, Andy Young

   Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Psychology Press
2. Social Metacognition

   Edited by Pablo Briñol, Kenneth DeMarree

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   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...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Psychology Press
3. Social Judgment and Decision Making

   Edited by Joachim I. Krueger

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What...

   Published October 17th 2011 by Psychology Press
4. The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience

   By Jamie Ward

   Social neuroscience is an expanding field which, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by the...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Psychology Press
5. Theories of Team Cognition

   Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Eduardo Salas, Stephen M. Fiore, Michael P. Letsky

   Series: Applied Psychology Series

   Cognitive processes in teams have been a valuable arena for team researchers to explore. Team cognition research advances and informs a variety of disciplines, including cognitive and social sciences, engineering, military science, organizational science, human factors, medicine, and communications...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge Academic
6. Trust and Conflict

   Representation, Culture and Dialogue

   Edited by Ivana Marková, Alex Gillespie

   Series: Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation

   Trust, distrust and conflict between social groups have existed throughout the history of humankind, although their forms have changed. Using three main concepts: culture, representation and dialogue, this book explores and re-thinks some of these changes in relation to concrete historical and...

   Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
7. Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations

   A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer

   Edited by Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston

   Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

   Perhaps the defining feature of humanity is the social condition -- how we think about others, identify ourselves with others, and interact with groups of others. The advances of evolutionary theory, social cognition, social identity, and intergroup relations, respectively, as major fields of...

   Published May 24th 2011 by Psychology Press
8. The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change

   Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper, William D. Crano

   Series: Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology

   Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying...

   Published May 18th 2010 by Psychology Press
9. Minority Influence and Innovation

   Antecedents, Processes and Consequences

   Edited by Robin Martin, Miles Hewstone

   Social groups form an important part of our daily lives. Within these groups pressures exist which encourage the individual to comply with the group’s viewpoint. This influence, which creates social conformity, is known as ‘majority influence’ and is the dominant process of social control. However,...

   Published December 3rd 2009 by Psychology Press
10. Art and Human Development

    Edited by Constance Milbrath, Cynthia Lightfoot

    Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

    This interdisciplinary volume explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, contributors examine the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part...

    Published November 30th 2009 by Psychology Press