John S. Carroll, John W. Payne both Carnegie-Mellon University.

• Preface, PART I: Developing a Cognitive Social Psychology, 1. Shallow Psychology, 2. The Psychology of the Parole Decision Process: A Joint Application of Attribution Theory and Information-Processing Psychology, 3. Script Processing in Attitude Formation and Decision Making, 4. Understanding Human Action: Recognizing the Plans and Motives of Other Persons, 5. Developing a Cognitive Social Psychology, PART II: Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Self and Others, 6. Cognitive Biases in the Perception of Social Groups, 7. The Role of Information Processing in Making Causal Attributions for Success and Failure, 8. Popular Induction: Information Is Not Necessarily Informative, 9. Some Life and Death Consequences of Perceived Control, 10. Social Perception as Problem Solving, PART III: Cognitive Processes and Social Decisions, 11. Cognitive Processes and Societal Risk Taking, 12. Studies of the Information Seeking Behavior of Consumers, 13. Applying Models of Choice to the Problem of College Selection, 14. Decisions Made about Other People: A Human Judgment Analysis of Dating Choice, 15. The Social Psychologist as Troll, PART IV: The Unity of Cognitive and Social Psychology, 16. Discussion: Cognition and Social Behavior, References, Subject Index

John S. Carroll, John W. Payne both Carnegie-Mellon University.

• Preface, PART I: Developing a Cognitive Social Psychology, 1. Shallow Psychology, 2. The Psychology of the Parole Decision Process: A Joint Application of Attribution Theory and Information-Processing Psychology, 3. Script Processing in Attitude Formation and Decision Making, 4. Understanding Human Action: Recognizing the Plans and Motives of Other Persons, 5. Developing a Cognitive Social Psychology, PART II: Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Self and Others, 6. Cognitive Biases in the Perception of Social Groups, 7. The Role of Information Processing in Making Causal Attributions for Success and Failure, 8. Popular Induction: Information Is Not Necessarily Informative, 9. Some Life and Death Consequences of Perceived Control, 10. Social Perception as Problem Solving, PART III: Cognitive Processes and Social Decisions, 11. Cognitive Processes and Societal Risk Taking, 12. Studies of the Information Seeking Behavior of Consumers, 13. Applying Models of Choice to the Problem of College Selection, 14. Decisions Made about Other People: A Human Judgment Analysis of Dating Choice, 15. The Social Psychologist as Troll, PART IV: The Unity of Cognitive and Social Psychology, 16. Discussion: Cognition and Social Behavior, References, Subject Index

John S. Carroll, John W. Payne both Carnegie-Mellon University.

• Preface, PART I: Developing a Cognitive Social Psychology, 1. Shallow Psychology, 2. The Psychology of the Parole Decision Process: A Joint Application of Attribution Theory and Information-Processing Psychology, 3. Script Processing in Attitude Formation and Decision Making, 4. Understanding Human Action: Recognizing the Plans and Motives of Other Persons, 5. Developing a Cognitive Social Psychology, PART II: Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Self and Others, 6. Cognitive Biases in the Perception of Social Groups, 7. The Role of Information Processing in Making Causal Attributions for Success and Failure, 8. Popular Induction: Information Is Not Necessarily Informative, 9. Some Life and Death Consequences of Perceived Control, 10. Social Perception as Problem Solving, PART III: Cognitive Processes and Social Decisions, 11. Cognitive Processes and Societal Risk Taking, 12. Studies of the Information Seeking Behavior of Consumers, 13. Applying Models of Choice to the Problem of College Selection, 14. Decisions Made about Other People: A Human Judgment Analysis of Dating Choice, 15. The Social Psychologist as Troll, PART IV: The Unity of Cognitive and Social Psychology, 16. Discussion: Cognition and Social Behavior, References, Subject Index