Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture

Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture 1. Introduction a. Approaches to Studying the Social Thinker b. Ebb & Flow of Cognition in Psychology & Neuroscience c. What is Social Cognition? d. People Are Not Things f. Brains Matter e. Cultures Matter g. Summary Basic Topics in Social Cognition 2. Dual Modes in Social Cognition a. Automatic Processes b. Controlled Processes c. Motivations Influence Which Modes Operate d. Models of Both Automatic and Controlled Processes f. Summary 3. Attention and Encoding a. Salience: A Property of Stimuli in Context b. Vividness: An Inherent Property of Stimuli c. Accessibility: A Property of Categories in Our Heads d. Direct Perception: Not Just in Our Heads e. Faces: The focus…