Features coverage of social cognitive psychology, including discussions of its historical foundations cross-referenced with significant developments. This book includes the contributions of cognition, affect, and direct perception to social knowing. It contains chapter summaries, lists of key terms and concepts, and graphs of processing models.

Historical Foundations: The Conception of a Pragmatic Social Cognitive Psychology. The Social Gestalt and Social Learning Traditions. The Constructivist Tradition. The Information Processing Tradition. Knowing Others: Evolving Models of the Social Knower. Multiple Knowing Processes. Stereotyping and Prejudice. Self Processes: Negotiating Realities to Know Oneself. Goals in Personality, Emotion, and Subjective Well-Being. Self-Regulation. Interpersonal Processes: Communication-Based Social Judgements and Relationship-Based Self-Schemas. Close Relationships. The Clinical Context: Social Clinical Psychology. The Social Cognitive Construction of Difference and Disorder. Index.

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