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Social cognition.
- Kyle G. Ratner Kyle G. Ratner University of California Santa Barbara, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.234
- Published online: 27 August 2020
Contemporary models of how the mind operates and methods for testing them emerged from the cognitive revolution in the middle of the 20th century. Social psychology researchers of the 1970s and 1980s were inspired by these developments and launched the field of social cognition to understand how cognitive approaches could advance understanding of social processes. Decades later, core social psychology topics, such as impression formation, the self, attitudes, stereotyping and prejudice, and interpersonal relationships, are interpreted through the lens of cognitive psychology conceptualizations of attention, perception, categorization, memory, and reasoning. Social cognitive methods and theory have touched every area of modern social psychology. Twenty-first-century efforts are shoring up methodological practices and revisiting old theories, investigating a wider range of human experience, and tackling new avenues of social functioning.
- social cognition
- person perception
- impression formation
- social categorization
- social attention
- social perception
- mentalizing
- face processing
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