" My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing
at a time"(James 1 890/1983: 960). The pragmatics of social cognition, foreseen by James …

Following an initial emphasis on “cold” cognitive processes, which could be conceptualized
within the computer metaphor of the information-processing paradigm, social cognition …

Three experiments show that information consistent with a preferred conclusion is examined
less critically than information inconsistent with a preferred conclusion, and consequently …

Lawrence. hroughout their school years, students are faced with an array of increasingly
important and difficult choices. These range from deciding what to do for the elementary …

A series of studies explored how sadness impacts the accuracy of social judgments. In Study
1, induced sadness led to reduced accuracy in judgments of teacher effectiveness from brief …

Socially motivated perceivers are potentially driven by a wide range of basic human motives,
a wider range than so far addressed by theories of motivated social cognition. We suggest …

This edition of the Handbook follows the first edition by 10 years. The earlier edition was a
promissory note, presaging the directions in which the then-emerging field of social …

Historically, depression researchers have examined continuity in terms of whether the
symptoms and characteristics of mild, moderate, and severe depression differ in degree …

A significant clinical feature of depression involves difficulties in social functioning. At the
foundation of these difficulties may lie alterations in “theory of mind” reasoning—the ability to …

We show how motivation affects reasoning through reliance on a biased set of cognitive
processes. We manipulate the level of brand preference experimentally and expose …