The Sage Handbook of Social Cognition

Revisiting the Sovereignty of Social Cognition: Finally Some Action - C. Neil Macrae & Lynden K. MilesControl, Awareness and Other Things We Might Learn to Live Without - B. Keith PayneImplicit Social Cognition - Brian A. Nosek, Carlee Beth Hawkins & Rebecca S. FrazierConsciousness, Metacognition and the Unconscious - Piotr Winkielman & Jonathan W. SchoolerGoals, Motivated Social Cognition and Behaviour - Henk AartsThe Social Perception of Faces - Alexander TodorovMind Perception - Daniel R. Ames & Malia F. MasonSocially Situated Cognition: Recasting Social Cognition as an Emergent Phenomenon - G n R. Semin, Margarida V. Garrido & Tomás A. PalmaLikes and Dislikes: A Social Cognitive Perspective on Attitudes - Melissa J. Ferguson & Jun FukukuraNon-Verbal Perception - Nora A. MurphyEmbodied Social Thought: Linking Social Concepts, Emotion and Gesture - Autumn B. Hostetter, Martha W. Alibali & Paula M. Niedenthal Levels of Mental Construal - Oren Shapira, Nira Liberman, Yaacov Trope & SoYon RimJudgment and Decision Making - David DunningCognition and Action in the Social World - Ezequiel Morsella & Avi Ben-ZeevSocial Psychology of Emotion - Batja Mesquita, Claudia Marinett & Ellen DelvauxSocial Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups - Galen V. Bodenhausen, Sonia K. Kang & Destiny PeerySelf-Evaluation and Self-Knowledge - Jennifer S. BeerSocial Cognition in Close Relationships - Susan Andersen, S. Adil Saribay & Elizabeth PrzybylinskiRepresentations of Social Groups in the Early Years of Life - Talee Ziv & Mahzarin R. Banaji Social Cognitive Aging - William von Hippel & Julie D. HenryAtypical Social Cognition - Elizabeth PellicanoSocial Cognition In Real Worlds: Cultural Psychology and Social Cognition - Beth Morling & Takahiko MasudaEvolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition - Joshua M. Ackerman, Julie Y. Huang & John A. BarghThinkers' Personalities: On Individual Differences in the

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorates, Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands). She investigates social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes and emotional prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal, and neuroscientific levels. Author of over 300 publications and winner of numerous scientific awards, she has edited most recently, Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom (2008), the Handbook of Social Psychology (2010, 5/e), the Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (2012), and Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction (2012). Currently an editor of Annual Review of Psychology, Science, and Psychological Review, she wrote two texts: Social Cognition (2013, 4/e) and Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology (in press, 3/e). Sponsored by a Guggenheim, her 2011 Russell-Sage-Foundation book is Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us. Her graduate students arranged for her winning the University's Mentoring Award. Neil Macrae is a professor in social psychology from Aberdeen where he completed his ph.d. in 1990. He was until recently at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and he is currently professor of social cognition at the University of Aberdeen. His research is on core aspects of social cognition (e.g. person understanding, self) using both behavioral and neuroimaging approaches. Neil Macrae is among the pioneers of social cognition, contributing (with M. Hewstone) the entry (article) on "social cognition" The Blackwell dictionary of cognitive psychology already in 1990. Lately, many more social psychologists have flocked to the brain scanners to resolve longstanding social and philosophical questions (such as questions of self) with neuroimaging methods. Neil Macrae is among the best examples of this feature of social cognition, and we have asked him to give one of the

'In all of the promotion material for this handbook, the editors are credited with having constructed a "landmark volume". I'll not dissent from that summary! The handbook comprises of 27 chapters, each of which provides a state-of-the-art overview of significant findings, specific methodological issues and foci for future research.' - Effie MacLellan Psychology Learning and Teaching