Chapter 1: Introduction

This book comes with access to the following SAGE book chapters.

Ackerman, J. M., Huang, J. Y., & Bargh, J. A. (2012). Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 451–473). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Chiao, J. Y., Cheon, B. K., Bebko, G. M., Livingston, R. L., & Hong, Y-y. (2012). Gene x environment interaction in social cognition. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 516–534). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Fiske, S. T. (2012). “One word: Plasticity” – Social cognition’s futures. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 535–541). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Macrae, C. N., & Miles, L. K. (2012). Revisiting the sovereignty of social cognition: Finally some action. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 1–11). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Morling, B., & Masuda, T. (2012). Social cognition in real worlds: Cultural psychology and social cognition. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 429–450). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

For more information, take a look at some of the following additional readings

Asch, S. E. (1946). Forming impressions of personality. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 41(3), 258–290.

Harmon-Jones, E., & Inzlicht, M. (Eds.) (2016). Social neuroscience: Biological approaches to social psychology. New York: Routledge.

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2–3), 61–83.

Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Social cognitive neuroscience. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (5th ed, Vol. 1, pp. 143–193). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Lieberman, M. D. (2013). Social: Why our brains are wired to connect. New York: Crown.

North, M. S., & Fiske, S. T. (2012). Social cognition. In A. W. Kruglanski & W. Stroebe (Eds.), Handbook of the history of social psychology (pp. 81–100). New York: Psychology Press.

Ostrom, T. M. (1984). The sovereignty of social cognition. In R. S. Wyer, Jr., & T. K. Srull (Eds.), Handbook of social cognition (Vol. 1, pp. 1–38). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Todorov, A., Fiske, S. T., & Prentice, D. (Eds.) (2011). Social neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind. New York: Oxford University Press.