1st Edition
Social Cognition, Inference, and Attribution
400 Pages
by
Psychology Press
400 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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First published in 1979.This book developed out of a series of general discussions between the authors on research and theory in person perception and attribution phenomena. During the course of this discussion, two things became clear. First, many of the traditional approaches to investigating these phenomena, made popular during the past decade by the advent of algebraic models of information... Read more
PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Overview and Basic Concepts PART II: BASIC PROCESSES IN SOCIAL INFERENCE 2. Scripts, Schemata and Implicational Molecules: A Conceptualization of Complex Information Processing 3. A Preliminary Model of Person Memory 4. The Encoding of Information and Its Effects on Recall and Inference Making PART III: IDENTIFYING THE IMPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION FOR JUDGMENTS 5. Characteristics of Information that Affect Its Perceived Implications 6. Indirect Effects of Information on Judgments 7. The Role of Syllogistic Reasoning in Inferences Based Upon New and Old Information PART IV: INTEGRATION PROCESSES 8. Algebraic Inference Processes 9. Generalization Processes 10. Epilogue
Biography
Robert S. Wyer, Jr. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; DONAL E. Carlston University of Iowa
