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Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality

Rainer Greifeneder, Herbert Bless, Klaus Fiedler · 2018

A comprehensive textbook on social cognition covering cognitive processes involved in how individuals perceive, learn, judge, and communicate within their social world. Written by leading social psychology scholars, it presents an idealized sequence of social information processing from perception through behavior regulation.

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What this book knows

Social cognition is active hypothesis-driven construction, not passive reception — and environment, language, and bias systematically shape what we believe we see.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Absent

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mind-and-cognition

Social cognition is an active, knowledge-guided construction process, rather than a merely passive reaction to given stimuli.
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Completely unbiased, regular processes of environmental learning can account for biased judgments because social reality is skewed in manifold ways.
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72% selected Program A over B, yet 78% selected Program D over C — identical outcomes reframed as lives saved versus lives lost.
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self-and-identity

Patients refuse to learn about terminal disease; we more readily recognize our own success and others' failure than the reverse.
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obedience-and-authority

Interviewers of the extraversion group asked questions that created rich opportunities for targets to exhibit extraverted responses.
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Keeping silent in a discussion about moral values will be understood as a conspicuous sign of guilt or a bad conscience.
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