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This text by Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor has been the standard resource for scholars and students interested in the fullest understanding of the areas of social cognition. Now in its thoroughly revised second edition," Social Cognition" goes even further in organizing and critically evaluating the theories, evidence, and practical applications centered around the basic issue of how people make sense of their social environment. By combining new developments in cognitive psychology on attention, memory, and inference, with those emerging from the study of attitudes, affect, and motivation, Fiske and Taylor give us the" state of the art" manual for appreciating that aspect of human nature which focuses on how people think about themselves and about others.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)