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In this chapter we shall review the social cognitive approach to the way in which we perceive other people, including the use of schemata, scripts, prototypes and exemplars. There is a full account in the introduction to this part of the book of social cognition. It may be useful to refer back to it. There is also reference to social cognition in Chapter 22.
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Deaux, K., Dane, F.C. and Wrightsman, L.S. (1993). Social Psychology in the 90’s, 6th edn. Pacific Grove, CA: Brookes-Cole. Chapter 3 of this book describes some of the research on self-concepts, including gender identity, self-perception theory and social comparison. Chapter 4 contains a good account of person perception including an excellent outline of social cognition.
Hogg, M.A. and Vaughan, G.M. (1995). Social Psychology: An Introduction. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice-Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf. Chapter 3 of this book contains a good basic account of attribution theory, including biases in attribution, together with some extensions and applications.
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Malim, T., Birch, A. (1998). Self and others. In: Introductory Psychology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14186-9_30
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