Social Cognition: the Basis of Human Interaction Edited by Fritz Strack and Jens Forster Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has flourished since the late 1980s. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social context. Moreover, social cognition has integrated emotional influences and unconscious processes to reach a more complete understanding of social psychological phenomena. In this volume, the reader will find a representative sample of outstanding research in the field of social cognition. The chapters address its central themes, roughly organized along the temporal axis of information processing. They include basic operations such as perception, categorization, representation, and judgmental inferences. Other chapters focus on such issues as social comparison, emotion, language, and culture. Contributed by internationally renowned experts In their respective fields, the authors provide the reader with first-hand experience about classic and current research in their disciplines. Social Cognition: The Basis of Human Interaction is an invaluable resource for researchers requiring a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of the field and may also be used by intermediate and advanced students of social cognition.