The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition

The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition is a landmark volume. Edited by two of the field′s most eminent academics and supported by a distinguished global advisory board, the 56 authors - each an expert in their own chapter topic - provide authoritative and thought-provoking overviews of this fascinating territory of research. Not since the early 1990s has a Handbook been published in this field, now, Fiske and Macrae have provided a timely and seminal benchmark; a state of the art overview that will benefit advanced students and academics not just within social psychology but beyond these borders too. Following an introductory look at the ′uniqueness of social cognition′, the Handbook goes on to explore basic and underlying processes of social cognition, from implicit social cognition and consciousness and meta-cognition to judgment and decision-making. Also, the wide-ranging applications of social cognition research in ′the real world′ from the burgeoning and relatively recent fields of social cognitive development and social cognitive aging to the social cognition of relationships are investigated. Finally, there is a critical and exciting exploration of the future directions in this field. The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition will be an indispensable volume for any advanced student or academic wanting or needing to understand the landscape of social cognition research in the 21st century.

Table of Contents:
Revisiting the Sovereignty of Social Cognition: Finally Some Action - C. Neil Macrae & Lynden K. Miles Control, Awareness and Other Things We Might Learn to Live Without - B. Keith Payne Implicit Social Cognition - Brian A. Nosek, Carlee Beth Hawkins & Rebecca S. Frazier Consciousness, Metacognition and the Unconscious - Piotr Winkielman & Jonathan W. Schooler Goals, Motivated Social Cognition and Behaviour - Henk Aarts The Social Perception of Faces - Alexander Todorov Mind Perception - Daniel R. Ames & Malia F. Mason Socially Situated Cognition: Recasting Social Cognition as an Emergent Phenomenon - G n R. Semin, Margarida V. Garrido & Tomás A. Palma Likes and Dislikes: A Social Cognitive Perspective on Attitudes - Melissa J. Ferguson & Jun Fukukura Non-Verbal Perception - Nora A. Murphy Embodied Social Thought: Linking Social Concepts, Emotion and Gesture - Autumn B. Hostetter, Martha W. Alibali & Paula M. Niedenthal Levels of Mental Construal - Oren Shapira, Nira Liberman, Yaacov Trope & SoYon Rim Judgment and Decision Making - David Dunning Cognition and Action in the Social World - Ezequiel Morsella & Avi Ben-Zeev Social Psychology of Emotion - Batja Mesquita, Claudia Marinett & Ellen Delvaux Social Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups - Galen V. Bodenhausen, Sonia K. Kang & Destiny Peery Self-Evaluation and Self-Knowledge - Jennifer S. Beer Social Cognition in Close Relationships - Susan Andersen, S. Adil Saribay & Elizabeth Przybylinski Representations of Social Groups in the Early Years of Life - Talee Ziv & Mahzarin R. Banaji Social Cognitive Aging - William von Hippel & Julie D. Henry Atypical Social Cognition - Elizabeth Pellicano Social Cognition In Real Worlds: Cultural Psychology and Social Cognition - Beth Morling & Takahiko Masuda Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition - Joshua M. Ackerman, Julie Y. Huang & John A. Bargh Thinkers′ Personalities: On Individual Differences in the Processes of Sense Making - Arie W. Kruglanski & Anna Sheveland The Ideological Toolbox: Ideologies as Tools of Motivated Social Cognition - Aaron C. Kay & Richard P. Eibach Gene x Environment Interactions in Social Cognition - Joan Y. Chiao, Bobby K. Cheon, Genna M. Bebko, Robert W. Livingston & Ying-Yi Hong ′One Word: Plasticity′ - Social Cognition′s Futures - Susan T. Fiske

About the Author :
Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorates, Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Universitat Basel, Switzerland). She investigates social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes and emotional prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal, and neuro-scientific levels. Author of over 300 publications and winner of numerous scientific awards, she has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Sponsored by a Guggenheim, her 2011 Russell-Sage-Foundation book is Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us. Her most recent book is The HUMAN Brand: How We Respond to People, Products, and Companies (with Chris Malone, 2013). With Shelley Taylor, she has written four editions of a classic text: Social Cognition (2013, 4/e) and on her own, three editions of Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology (2013, 3/e). She has lately edited Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom (2008), the Handbook of Social Psychology (2010, 5/e), Social Neuroscience (2011), the Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (2012), and Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction (2012). Currently an editor of Annual Review of Psychology, PNAS, and Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, she is also President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Her graduate students arranged for her to win the University's Mentoring Award, and international advisees arranged for her to win the APS Mentoring Award. Neil Macrae is a professor in social psychology from Aberdeen where he completed his ph.d. in 1990. He was until recently at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and he is currently professor of social cognition at the University of Aberdeen. His research is on core aspects of social cognition (e.g. person understanding, self) using both behavioral and neuroimaging approaches. Neil Macrae is among the pioneers of social cognition, contributing (with M. Hewstone) the entry (article) on "social cognition" The Blackwell dictionary of cognitive psychology already in 1990. Lately, many more social psychologists have flocked to the brain scanners to resolve longstanding social and philosophical questions (such as questions of self) with neuroimaging methods. Neil Macrae is among the best examples of this feature of social cognition, and we have asked him to give one of the opening lectures to present social cognition as a scientific field.

Review :
′In all of the promotion material for this handbook, the editors are credited with having constructed a "landmark volume". I′ll not dissent from that summary! The handbook comprises of 27 chapters, each of which provides a state-of-the-art overview of significant findings, specific methodological issues and foci for future research.′ - Effie MacLellan Psychology Learning and Teaching