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Social Cognition

Social Cognition. What is social cognition? How is it different from social psych and cognitive psych? Effortful, then automatic, then motivated tactician Then applied to different areas like relationships Then social cog neuroscience Controversies. Attribution theory.

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Social Cognition

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  1. Social Cognition

  2. What is social cognition? How is it different from social psych and cognitive psych? • Effortful, then automatic, then motivated tactician • Then applied to different areas like relationships • Then social cog neuroscience • Controversies

  3. Attribution theory • Jones and Davis (1965) correspondent inference theory • Kelley (1967) covariation theory

  4. Schemas • When do people use schemas? • What do we have them on? • How do they differ from stereotypes?

  5. Impression formation • Warm vs. cold, intellective (compare to Fiske stereotype model) • Anderson (1968) information integration model • Kenny (1987) SOREMO • Thin slices • Spontaneous trait inferences • Why does negative info have more weight?

  6. Judgment • Tversky & Kahneman (1973) • Representativeness • Availability • Counterfactuals • Anchoring and adjustment • What are some reasons we make these mistakes? • Wegner thought suppression

  7. Other areas already covered • Self • Attitudes • Prejudice • Emotion

  8. Automaticity • What are automatic processes? • How do they differ from controlled? • How is it measured? • https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ • What are problems with these measures? • What effects do subliminals have?

  9. Baumeister & Masicampo, 2010 • What’s a dual process model? • What is consciousness? • What is his model? • What is it not good for? (critiques) • What is it good for? • How does it affect behavior? • How does he explain memory? Dreams? Affective forecasting?

  10. How do mental stimulations help us? • How does this relate to the concept of free will? Do we have it? Why do we want to? (Wegner, Bargh)

  11. Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004 • What is system justification theory? Vs. Social identity theory? Vs. social dominance theory? • Why do people vote and act against their own interests? • Why are implicit and explicit favoritism different? • In what other ways do low status groups show outgroup favoritism?

  12. Would system justification occur outside the US? • What is the IAT really measuring? Does it matter? • Why do we have these tendencies for SJ? What motives do they serve?

  13. People rationalize status quo by thinking likely events are more desirable. • We use stereotypes to rationalize group differences, especially when under threat. • Explaining status differences will increase these effects, even post hoc.

  14. Low status groups will show outgroup favoritism, especially on implicit, and vice versa for high status. • Especially when system seen as more legit, SJ tendencies increase, or conservatism increases • Why? • Low status more group ambivalence • Affects self-esteem, depression, neuroticism • Implications/examples of this?

  15. SJ higher in societies with more inequality • SJ higher when complementary stereotypes (poor but happy, caring women) • Sometimes higher for low status group • Why?

  16. Climate change (Reser & Swim, 2011) • What can social cognition contribute? • What can social psych contribute? • How is climate change similar/different? • Risk appraisals • Coping • What affects our perceptions of risks? • Is our response automatic or controlled? • How does this relate to SJ? • How do you make the global personal? • Social cog vs. reps vs. construction

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