1st Edition

Person Memory (PLE: Memory) The Cognitive Basis of Social Perception

330 Pages
by Psychology Press

318 Pages
by Psychology Press

318 Pages
by Psychology Press

Originally published in 1980, this title came about after many late night discussions between the authors during a 3-week workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Person Perception in 1974. In subsequent meetings a mutual interest emerged in the development of cognitive information processing metaphors for human thought and their application to problems of social perception, memory and judgment.... Read more

Preface.  1. Reid Hastie and Donal Carlston Theoretical Issues in Person Memory  2. Thomas M. Ostrom, John H. Lingle, John B. Pryor and Nehemia Geva Cognitive Organization of Person Impressions  3. Donal E. Carlston Events, Inferences, and Impression Formation  4. David L. Hamilton, Lawrence B. Katz and Von O. Leirer Organizational Processes in Impression Formation  5. Reid Hastie Memory for Behavioral Information that Confirms or Contradicts a Personality Impression  6. Ebbe B. Ebbesen Cognitive Processes in Understanding Ongoing Behavior  7. Robert S. Wyer, Jr. and Thomas K. Srull The Processing of Social Stimulus Information: A Conceptual Integration.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Reid Hastie, Thomas Ostrom, Ebbe Ebbesen, Robert Wyer, David Hamilton, Donal Cariston