The Social Mind: Cognitive and Motivational Aspects of Interpersonal Behavior Book

Contributors; Preface;

1. The social mind: introduction and overview Joseph P. Forgas, Kipling D. Williams and Ladd Wheeler;

Part I. The Social Mind: Basic Issues and Processes:
2. Dimensions of the social mind: size, asymmetries, congruence and sex differences in thought systems focused on self or other persons William J. McGuire and Claire V. Mcguire;
3. Affect and the 'social mind': affective influences on strategic interpersonal behaviours Joseph P. Forgas;
4. Motivating cognitive change: the self-standards model of dissonance Joel Cooper;
5. The motivational and cognitive dynamics of day-to-day social life John B. Nezlek;

Part II. The Social Mind of Individuals: The Role of the Self and Individual Differences:
6. The social self: the quest for identity and the motivational primacy of the individual self Constantine Sedikides and Lowell Gaertner;
7. Cognitive and motivational processes in self-presentation Dianne M. Tice and Jon Faber;
8. Self-esteem and interpersonal strategies Astrid Schütz;
9. The social mind of the narcissist: cognitive and motivational aspects of interpersonal self-construction Frederick Rhodewalt;
10. Uncertainty orientation and the social mind: individual differences in the interpersonal context Richard M. Sorrentino, Gordon Hodson and Günter L. Huber;

Part III. The Social Mind in Personal Relationships and Interpersonal Behaviours:
11. Perceiving, feeling and wanting: experiencing prior relationships in present-day interpersonal relations Susan M. Andersen and Kathy R. Berenson;
12. Ideal standards in close relationships Garth J. O.Fletcher and Jeffry A. Simpson;
13. Victims and perpetrators provide discrepant accounts: motivated cognitive distortions about interpersonal transgressions Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen Catanese;
14. Inside the social mind of the ostraciser Kipling D. Williams, Ladd Wheeler and Joel A. R. Harvey;

Part IV. The Social Mind of Groups: Group Representations and Group Behaviour:
15. Self-categorisation and subjective uncertainty resolution: cognitive and motivational facets of social identity and group membership Michael A. Hogg;
16. Motivation gains in performance groups: aspects and prospects Norbert L. Kerr;
17. The social influence of automatic responding: controlling the uncontrollable Pascal Huguet, Marie P. Galvaing, Florence Dumas and Jean-M. Monteil;
18. Directed social influence William D. Crano;
19. Cognitive and social motivation in group decision making Martin F. Kaplan and Henk Wilke; Author index; Subject index.