TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,David L AU - Stroessner,Steven J TI - Social cognition: understanding people and events SN - 9781412935548 U1 - 320 H18 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Thousand Oaks, California, London, UK PB - SAGE Publication KW - Psychology, Social KW - Social perception N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Processing social information: A conceptual framework Cognitive representations: Structures of the mind Automatic processing: Doing more than we know Attention: The mind's eye meets the social world Interpretation: Making meaning Evaluation: Judging good and bad Inference: Going beyond the obvious Attribution: Understanding why things happen Judgement: Reasoning and decision making Memory: Storage and retrieval The time dimension: Understanding the past, anticipating the future Social cognition and action: Thinking and doing; JHS; Araling Panlipunan (AP) N2 - "Social cognition textbook for undergraduate students"--; Social cognition is an approach to understanding how people think about people and events. We are constantly processing information to navigate the world we live in. The authors will guide your students, using examples and up-to-date studies, through this approach; from explaining the processes themselves right through to demonstrating the role cognitive processes play in our social lives. This book will provide your students with a framework for understanding the most common areas of interest for Social Cognition, such as perception, attitudes and stereotyping ER -