Introduction -- Seeing things - and people : A brief history of the visual perception of people and other things : Putting `things' together: the Gestalt principles of perceptual organization; What's out there? Indirect perception; Evolved to see: direct perception; Indirect and direct perception in the brain ; Computational modelling of perception ; Grounded and embodied cognition ; The predictive brain -- The categorical perception of people : Categorization in social perception ; Schemas ; Schematic processing ; Spreading rumours ; Representation in memory: associative networks ; People, categories, prototypes and exemplars ; Impression formation: snap judgements ; Impression formation: combining information : The continuum model of impression formation; Construal-level theory ; Social identity theory -- The nature of social inference : The rationality of human thought ; Rational choice theory ; The naìˆve scientist ; Mindreading ; Attribution theory ; Attribution research ; The irrationality of human thought? ; Logical reasoning ; Statistical judgements: the work of Kahneman and Tversky ; Attention : The face in the crowd; Practice and automaticity ; Two modes of thought ; Dual process theory in social psychology ; Of misers, monsters and elephants -- Motivation and person perception : Motivated cognition : Motivation and social perception; The motivated tactician; Motivated cognition and the need for closure; Outcome and strategy-motivated thinking ; Identity motivations : The self-serving bias; Cognitive consistency; Belief perseverance; Explanation: justification, responsibility and blame ; Activation and intuition : Implicit social cognition: motivation or activation?; Social intuition ; Engaging with the world: mindfulness and mindlessness -- Expectation, influence and society : People in society ; Formal and informal rules ; Everyday expectations and social norms ; Conformity: majority and minority influence ; Obedience and authority ; Bystanders: observing people and events ; Taking on a role ; Impression management -- Culture and common sense : Culture and everyday understanding ; The study of culture and society ; Culture and categorization ; Inventing the category of `teenager' ; Folk psychology : Folk psychology as mindreading; Folk-conceptual theory; Folk psychology as common sense ; Social representations theory: explaining common sense ; Culture, self and identity -- Stories of the self and others : History and other stories ; Telling the truth or selected fictions? ; Psychology and narratives ; Constructing the self through narrative: the storied self ; Narratives and everyday understanding : Folk psychology as narrative practice; Narratives and social representations ; Discourse and discourse analysis : Discourse and the perception of the cultural `other' ; Positioning theory ; Metaphors in everyday conversation -- Stereotypes, cognition and culture : The curious case of stereotypes ; Stereotyping and discrimination ; The study of stereotypes: Lippmann's ideas ; The Princeton studies ; Stereotypes, categorization and the perception of group differences : Stereotype change ; Stereotypes and mental shortcuts : Stereotype change ; Stereotypes, accuracy and social history : The stereotypical Englishman ; Stereotypes and social representations ; Language and stereotypes : Narratives; Discourse analysis -- Postscript : Logos and mythos.
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