Social Cognition
Heuristics: How We Reduce Our Effort in Social Cognition
Representativeness : Judging by Resemblance
prototype, representativeness heuristic
Availability : If I can Retrieve Instances, They must be Frequent
availability heuristic
Anchoring and Adjustment : Where You Begin Makes a Difference
anchoring and adjustment heuristic
Automatic Processing/ Automatic Modes of Thoughts
Schemas: Mental Frameworks for Organizing Social Information
The Impact of Schemas on Social Cognition
Schemes influence social thought through 3 basic concepts; attention, encoding and retrieval
Priming: Which Schemas Guide Our Thought
priming, unpriming
Schema Persistence: Why Even Discredited Schemas Can Sometimes Influence Our Thought and Behavior
perseverance effect
Reasoning By Metaphor: How Social Attitudes and Behavior are Affected by Figures of Speech
Types of schemas; Person schemas, Role schemas, Scripts (Event Schemas)
Automatic and Controlled Processing: Two Basic Modes of Social Thought
Automatic Processing and Autonomic Social Behavior
The Benefits of Autonomic Processing: Beyond Mere Efficiency
Potential Sources of Error in Social Cognition: Why Total Rationality is Rarer Than You Think
A Basic "Tilt" in Social Thought: Our Powerful Tendency to be Overly Optimistic--Optimistic Bias, Overconfidence Barrier
The Rocky Past Versus The Golden Future: Optimism at Work
When Optimism Affects Our Ability to Plan Effectively--planning fallacy
Situation-Specific Sources of Error in Social Cognition: Counterfactual Thinking and Magical Thinking
Counterfactual Thinking: Imagining what have been
Magical Thinking, Terror Management, and Belief in the Supernatural --magical thinking, terror management
Highlight: Negativity Bias, The Optimistic Bias, Counterfactual Thinking, Thought Suppression, Ability Limits/Magical Thinking
Affect and Cognition
The Influence of Affect on Cognition
mood congruence effects, mood dependent memory
The Influence of Cognition on Affect
Cognition and the Regulation of Affective States -- affective forecasts
Social Neuroscience Evidence for Two Separate Systems