Short description
The Social Mind explores the relationship between people??'s thoughts and motives and their interpersonal strategies.
Long description
Effective social interaction requires sophisticated mental and motivational strategies. The Social Mind reviews and integrates recent psychological research on the relationship between people's thoughts and motives - their 'social mind' - and their interpersonal strategies. The research shows that success in personal relationships, group behavior and strategic interaction are all significantly influenced by how individuals interpret and explain the social world around them. The implications of this research for personal adjustment, organizational effectiveness, and clinical, counselling and health psychology are also explored.
Review
'At last here is a volume that provides a compelling answer to the question of what is 'social' about social cognition. The editors have assembled a stellar cast of social psychology researchers to address this question head-on and the result is eye-opening and mind-expanding. From intraindividual to interpersonal to group processes, the consistent message throughout the chapters of the volume is that of the inextricable connections between human cognition and social behavior. Empirically and conceptually the contributors to this project make a convincing case that, for human beings, mental life is social life.' Marilynn B. Brewer, Ohio State University
Table of contents
- Introduction and overview Joseph P
- Forgas, Kipling D
- Williams and Ladd Wheeler
- Part I
- The Social Mind
- Basic Issues and Processes
- Dimensions of the social mind William J
- McGuire and Claire V
- Mcguire
- Affect and the social mind Joseph P
- Forgas
- Motivating cognitive change Joel Cooper
- The motivational and cognitive dynamics of day
- to
- day social life John B
- Nezlek
- Part II
- The Social Mind of Individuals
- The Role of the Self and Individual Differences
- The social self Constantine Sedikides and Lowell Gaertner
- Cognitive and motivational processes in self
- presentation Dianne M
- Tice and Jon Faber
- Self
- esteem and interpersonal strategies Astrid Schutz
- The social mind of the narcissist Frederick Rhodewalt
- Uncertainty orientation and the social mind Richard M
- Sorrentinto, Gordon Hodson and Gunter L
- Huber
- Part III
- The Social Mind in Personal Relationships and Interpersonal Behaviors
- Perceiving feeling, and wanting Susan M
- Andersen and Kathy R
- Berenson
- Ideal standards in close relationships Garth J
- O
- Fletcher and Jeffry A
- Simpson
- Victims and perpetrators provide discrepant accounts Roy F
- Baumeister and Kathleen Catanese
- Inside the social mind of the ostracizer Joel A
- R
- Harvey
- Part IV
- The Social Mind of Groups
- Group Representations and Group Behavior
- Self
- categorization and subjective uncertainty resolution Michael A
- Hogg
- Motivational gains in performance groups Norbert L
- Kerr
- The social influence of automatic responding Pascal Huguet, Marie P
- Galvaing, Florence Dumas and Jean
- M
- Monteil
- Directed social influence William D
- Crano
- Cognitive and social motivation in group decision making Martin F
- Kaplan and Henk Wilke