The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, Second Edition

Abstract This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition is an all-new update and extension of the historic 2013 first edition. Like the first, it contains over forty chapters encompassing social cognition’s history and methods, primary approaches and theories, and applications across social psychology and other social sciences, all written by luminaries in the field. Several chapters from the first edition have been extended and updated by the original authors, but most provide the perspective of new contributors and many address topics and areas not included in the first edition. New perspectives are provided by chapters on such central social cognitive topics as impression formation, dual-process theories, motivated cognition, construal, attention, the self, prejudice, and stereotyping, as well as social cognitive approaches to attitudes, relationships, evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, communication, culture, law, health, and consumer and political psychologies. Altogether new topics include best research practices, fluency, eye tracking, happiness, intersectionality, identity threat, morality, embodied cognition, and mind perception, among others. Together, these chapters provide a comprehensive review of social cognitive theory, research, and applications with an emphasis on research since 2013, along with thoughtful perspectives on where the field is likely to go next. This handbook thus represents a definitive statement about how social cognition has developed, what it has become, and where it is likely to lead. It is an essential resource for anyone whose work touches on social cognition, which is virtually everyone in psychology and related fields.