Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers from the first Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held at the University of Western Ontario from August 25-27, 1978. The general theme of the symposium was social cognition. The chapters have been grouped into two major parts. Chapters 1-5 focus on the implications of cognitive structures for social cognition, with particular emphasis on the nature of social schemata and the organization of social information. Chapters 6-11 focus on the consequences for social cognition of various cognitive processes and mechanisms, including verbal and nonverbal communicative processes, category accessibility, salience and selective attention, hypothesis-testing, and self-centered biases. Chapter 12 comments on the general perspectives taken in the previous chapters and suggests some additional directions for future consideration. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.
Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers from the first Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held at the University of Western Ontario from August 25-27, 1978. The general theme of the symposium was social cognition.
Preface. Part I: Organization and Representation of Social Information
1. The Organization of Social Information Thomas M. Ostrom, John B. Pryor,
David D. Simpson
2. Schematic Principles in Human Memory Reid Hastie
3.
Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing Shelley E. Taylor and
Jennifer Crocker
4. Cognitive Representations of Persons David L. Hamilton
5.
Category Accessibility: Some Theoretical and Empirical Issues Concerning the
Processing of Social Stimulus Information Robert S. Wyer, Jr. and Thomas K.
Srull Part II: Processing Factors and Biases in Social Cognition
6. What
Grabs You? The Role of Attention in Impression Formation and Causal
Attribution Leslie Zebrowitz McArthur
7. Cognitive Processes in Inferences
About A Persons Personality Ebbe B. Ebbesen
8. Seek, And Ye Shall Find:
Testing Hypotheses About Other People Mark Snyder
9. Self-centered Biases in
Attributions of Responsibility: Antecedents and Consequences Michael Ross
10. Impression Formation, Impression Management, and Nonverbal Behaviors
Robert M. Krauss
11. The "Communication Game": Implications for Social
Cognition and Persuasion E. Tory Higgins Part III: Commentary
12. Social
Cognition: A Need to Get Personal E. Tory Higgins, Nicholas A. Kuiper, James
M. Olson. Author Index. Subject Index.
E. Tory Higgins, C. Peter Herman, Mark P. Zanna
