Social Cognition, from Brains to Culture - Softcover

Fiske, Susan T.; Taylor, Shelley E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071284869 ISBN 13: 9780071284868

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007

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Reseña del editor

This exciting new version of the classic text, Social Cognition, describes the increasingly complete link between neuroscience and culture. Highlighting the cutting-edge research in social neuropsychology, mainstream experimental social-cognitive psychology, and cultural psychology, it retains the authors’ unique ability to be both scholarly and entertaining. Reader-friendly style and concise summaries combine with the authors’ engaging perspectives on this flourishing field. Comprehensive without being overwhelming, this new standard for the field brings with it a new organization reflecting current consensus open issues of the field, and its trajectory into the future.

Biografía del autor

Shelley E. Taylor is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. After a visiting professorship at Yale and assistant and associate professorships at Harvard University, she joined the faculty of UCLA in 1979. Her research interests are in health psychology, especially the factors that promote long-term psychological adjustment, and in social cognition. In the former capacity, she is the codirector of the Health Psychology program at UCLA. Professor Taylor is the recipient of a number of awards, most notably the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology Award, a 10-year Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, and an Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award in Health Psychology. She is the author of more than 200 publications in journals and books and is also the author of Social Cognition, Positive Illusions, and The Tending Instinct.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071284869
• ISBN 13: 9780071284868
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 552