Responding to the social world: explicit and implicit processes in social judgments

The book is organized into three major parts. Part I considers recent evidence for the important role that fundamental evolutionary, neuropsychological, and personality processes play in social judgments. Part II focuses on intrapsychic mechanisms of social judgments, including explicit and implicit cognitive and affective processes. Finally, Part III considers the role of social variables in judgmental strategies, such as social motivation, social comparison, social exclusion, and social stereotypes. Within each of these parts, leading international researchers present their most recent integrative theories and empirical research. Our hope as editors is that the ultimate contribution of this book will amount to more than the sum of its parts. A proper understanding of social judgments requires the integration of the evolutionary, biological, cognitive, and social influences that shape our judgmental strategies within a dynamic system.