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Presents a series of studies assessing whether people recruit specific exemplars or abstract trait summaries when making trait judgments about themselves. The limitations of social cognition paradigms, as methods for studying the representation of long-term social knowledge, are discussed.
The "Advances in Social Cognition" series presents and evaluates theoretical advances in all areas of social cognition and information processing. A volume is devoted to each theory, offering evaluation from a variety of perspectives.
The use of social stereotypes as a basis for judgements and behavioural decisions is a major focus of social psychology theory and research. This work's main article accounts for the processes that underlie both the activation of stereotypes and attempts to surpress their influence.
This volume focuses on the type of cognitive activity which concerns life events that have either occurred in the past or are likely to occur in the future. It develops a theoretical formulation of ruminative thinking and the consequences for the performance of daily life activities.
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Addressing automaticity and how it relates to social behaviour, the lead article of this book argues that social psychology phenomena are essentially automatic in nature, as opposed to being mediated by conscious choice or reflection. The subsequent essays comment on this theory.
The "Advances in Social Cognition" series presents and evaluates theoretical advances in all areas of social cognition and information processing. A volume is devoted to each theory, offering evaluation from a variety of perspectives.
In their target article, the authors of this book argue that narrative forms of metal representation are the basic ingredients of social knowledge that play a fundamental role in the comprehension of information conveyed in a social context.
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