All human interactions are conditioned on social cognition and, in turn, influence social cognition: it is a core field in social psychology, and now it also overlaps social neuroscience, social and cognitive development, behavioural economics, health psychology, diversity science, and more. This four-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and important articles to have come out of the field over the past decades, as well as taking in modern developments which reflect just how vital the subject still is today.

Volume One: Basic Concepts in Social Cognition

Volume Two: Topics in Social Cognition: Self, Attributions, Heuristics, and Inferences

Volume Three: Topics in Social Cognition: Cognitive Approaches to Attitudes, Stereotyping and Prejudice

Volume Four: Beyond Cognition: Affect and Behaviour

VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Forming Impressions of Personality - S.E. Asch
The Weirdest People in the World? - Joseph Henrich, Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan
The Emergence of Social Cognitive Neuroscience - Kevin Ochsner and Matthew Lieberman
The Sovereignty of Social Cognition - Thomas Ostrom
PART TWO: DUAL MODES IN SOCIAL COGNITION
Habits as Knowledge Structures - Henk Aarts and Ap Dijksterhuis
Automaticity in Goal-Directed Behavior
Automaticity of Social Behavior - John Bargh, Mark Chen and Lara Burrows
Direct Effects of Trait Construct and Stereotype Activation on Action
On Cognitive Busyness - David Gilbert, Brett Pelham and Douglas Krull
When Person Perceivers Meet Persons Perceived
Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression - Daniel Wegner et al
PART THREE: ATTENTION AND ENCODING
The Perceptual Determinants of Person Construal - Jasmin Cloutier, Malia Mason and C.Neil Macrae
Re-Opening the Social-Cognitive Toolbox
Attention and Weight in Person Perception - Susan Fiske
The Impact of Negative and Extreme Behavior
Category Accessibility and Impression Formation - E.Tory Higgins, William Rholes and Carl Jones
First Impressions - Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov
Making up Your Mind after a 100-Ms Exposure to a Face
PART FOUR: REPRESENTATION IN MEMORY
Social Cognition - C. Neil Macrae and Galen Bodenhausen
Thinking Categorically about Others
Associative Storage and Retrieval Processes in Person Memory - Thomas Srull, Meryl Lichenstein and Myron Rothbart
Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth - Lawrence Williams and John Bargh
VOLUME TWO
PART FIVE: SELF IN SOCIAL COGNITION
What the Social Brain Sciences Can Tell us about the Self - Todd Heatherton, C. Neil Macrae and William Kelley
Culture and the Self - Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama
Implications for Cognition, Emotion and Motivation
Agreeable Fancy or Disagreeable Truth? Reconciling Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification - William Swann, Jr., Brett Pelham and Douglas Krull
Illusion and Well-Being - Shelley Taylor and Jonathon Brown
A Social Psychological Perspective on Mental Health
PART SIX: ATTRIBUTION PROCESSES
Attributions on the Brain - Lasana Harris, Alexander Todorov and Susan Fiske
Neuro-Imaging Dispositional Inferences, beyond Theory of Mind
The Actor-Observer Asymmetry in Attribution - Bertram Malle
A (Surprising) Meta-Analysis
The How and What of Why - Leslie Ann McArthur
Some Determinants and Consequences of Causal Attribution
PART SEVEN: HEURISTICS AND SHORTCUTS: EFFICIENCY IN INFERENCE AND DECISION-MAKING
Perspective-Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment - Nicholas Epley et al
What Constitutes Torture? Psychological Impediments to an Objective Evaluation of Enhanced Interrogation Tactics - Loran Nordgren et al
Objectivity in the Eye of the Beholder - Emily Pronin, Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross
Divergent Perceptions of Bias in Self versus Others
Judgment under Uncertainty - Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman
Heuristics and Biases
PART EIGHT: ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY IN SOCIAL INFERENCE
The Use of Statistical Heuristics in Everyday Inductive Reasoning - Richard Nisbett et al
Perseverance in Self-Perception and Social Perception - Lee Ross, Mark Lepper and Michael Hubbard
Biased Attributional Processes in the Debriefing Paradigm
Quest for Accuracy in Person Perception - William Swann
A Matter of Pragmatics
VOLUME THREE
PART NINE: COGNITIVE STRUCTURES OF ATTITUDES
Attitude Representation - Frederica Conrey and Eliot Smith
Attitudes as Patterns in a Distributed, Connectionist Representational System
Attitude Research in the 21st Century - Alice Eagly and Shelly Chaiken
The Current State of Knowledge
Attitude Strength - Jon Krosnick et al
One Construct or Many Related Constructs?
PART TEN: COGNITIVE PROCESSING OF ATTITUDES
Heuristic versus Systematic Information-Processing and the Use of Source versus Message Cues in Persuasion - Shelly Chaiken
Implicit Measures in Social Cognition Research - Russell Fazio and Michael Olson
Their meaning and Use
Issue Involvement Can Increase or Decrease Persuasion by Enhancing Message-Relevant Cognitive Response - Richard Petty and John Cacioppo
PART ELEVEN: STEREOTYPING: COGNITION AND BIAS
A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype Content - Susan Fiske et al
Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow from Perceived Status and Competition
Reducing Intergroup Bias - Samuel Gaertner et al
The Benefits of Re-Categorization
Intergroup Bias - Miles Hewstone, Mark Rubin and Hazel Willis
Stereotypes as Energy-Saving Devices - C.Neil Macrae, Alan Milne and Galen Bodenhausen
A Peek inside the Cognitive Toolbox
PART TWELVE: PREJUDICE: INTERPLAY OF COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE BIASES
Social Categorization and Stereotyping in Vivo - Galen Bodenhausen and Destiny Peery
The VUCA Challenge
Sexual Prejudice - G.M. Herek and K. McLemore
An Inconvenienced Youth - Michael North and Susan Fiske
Ageism and Its Potential Intergenerational Roots
When Prejudice Does Not Pay - Jennifer Richeson and J. Nicole Shelton
Effects of Interracial Contact on Executive Function
Prescriptive Gender Stereotypes and Backlash toward Agentic Women - Laurie Rudman and Peter Glick
VOLUME FOUR
PART THIRTEEN: FROM SOCIAL COGNITION TO AFFECT
The Relational Self - Susan Andersen and Serena Chen
An Interpersonal Social-Cognitive Theory
The Experience of Emotion - Lisa Feldman Barrett et al
Inhibiting and Facilitating Conditions of the Human Smile - Fritz Strack, Leonard Martin and Sabine Stepper
A Non-Obtrusive Test of the Facial Feedback Hypothesis
PART FOURTEEN: FROM AFFECT TO SOCIAL COGNITION
Discrete Emotions and Persuasion - David DeSteno et al
The Role of Emotion-Induced Expectancies
Fear, Anger and Risk - Jennifer Lerner and Dacher Keltner
Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception and Emotion - Paula Niedenthal et al
Feeling and Thinking - R.B. Zajonc
Preferences Need no Inferences
A Cognitive Loop?
PART FIFTEEN: BEHAVIOR AND COGNITION
Implementation Intentions and Efficient Action Initiation - Veronika Brandstätter, Angelika Lengfelder and Peter Gollwitzer
The Chameleon Effect - Tanya Chartrand and John Bargh
The Perception-Behavior Link and Social Interaction
Telling More Than We Can Know - Richard Nisbett and Timothy DeCamp Wilson
Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
A Look at Motivated Strategies
The Non-Verbal Mediation of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction - Carl Word, Mark Zanna and Joel Cooper