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Author Forgas, Joseph P

Title Social Cognition and Communication
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (365 pages)
Series Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology
Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology
Contents Cover; Social Cognition and Communication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; 1 Social Cognition and Communication: Background, Theories, and Research; Part 1 The Interdependence of Social Cognition and Communication; 2 Counting Little Words in Big Data: The Psychology of Individuals, Communities, Culture, and History; 3 The Art of Exerting Verbal Influence through Powerful Lexical Stimuli; 4 Feeling and Speaking: Affective Influences on Communication Strategies and Language Use
5 In the Mood to Break the Rules: Happiness Promotes Language Abstraction and Transgression of Conversation Norms6 Intergroup Fluency: How Processing Experiences Shape Intergroup Cognition and Communication; 7 Multiple Meanings of Communicative Acts in the Reduction of Vicarious Cognitive Dissonance; Part 2 Cognition and Communication in Dyadic Encounters; 8 Models of Communication, Epistemic Trust, and Epistemic Vigilance; 9 Parameters of Nonaccommodation: Refining and Elaborating Communication Accommodation Theory; 10 The Big Two of Agency and Communion in Language and Communication
11 Gossiping as Moral Social Action: A Functionalist Account of Gossiper PerceptionsPart 3 The Psychology of Narratives; 12 Narrative Social Psychology; 13 The Role of Narrative Perspective in the Elaboration of Individual and Historical Traumas; 14 Emotional Elaboration of Collective Traumas in Historical Narratives; 15 Narrative Constructions of Italian Identity: An Investigation through Literary Texts over Time; Part 4 The Political and Social Consequences of Communication and Cognition; 16 Political Communication, Social Cognitive Processes, and Voters' Judgments
17 Social Factors that Affect the Processing of Minority-Sourced Persuasive Communications18 Mechanisms of Linguistic Bias: How Words Reflect and Maintain Stereotypic Expectancies; 19 Does Political Correctness Make (Social) Sense?; Index
Summary Language is the essence of interpersonal behavior and social relationships, and it is social cognitive processes that determine how we produce and understand language. However, there has been surprisingly little interest in the past linking social cognition and communication. This book presents the latest cutting-edge research from a select group of leading international scholars investigating the how language shapes our thinking, and how social cognitive processes in turn influence language production and communication. The chapters represent diverse perspectives of investigating the links
Notes Print version record
Subject Social perception.
Cognition -- Social aspects
Communication -- Psychological aspects.
Social psychology.
Social Perception
Psychology, Social
social psychology.
Cognition -- Social aspects.
Communication -- Psychological aspects.
Social perception.
Social psychology.
Form Electronic book
Author Vincze, Orsolya
László, János
ISBN 9781135011055
1135011052