Procedures and Categories in a Theory of Social Cognition

接近社会认知是一种新的社会认知理论， 关于社会知识和认知过程的认知 人们用来理解和在社会世界中行动的东西。 的 理论是以J. R.安德森的ACT理论 记忆和认知过程，但包括一些 延伸，包括情绪和情感，我们的态度， 意见和偏好，我们如何认识其他人， 以及我们自己，以及我们如何产生社会行为。 这 研究包括六个实验，将测试和扩展 理论的各个方面。 三项研究将调查社会认知的过程， 特别是他们如何提高速度，并成为自动与 实践 一个实验将表明， 为了提高工作效率， 第二，个体差异是否 个性可能是由于人们的认知差异 第三，是否存在着复杂的关系， 人们口头表达的态度和他们的实际行为 可以通过将态度视为认知过程来理解。 两项研究探讨了组织知识的性质及其 用于理解新的社会经验。 一个实验 研究特定过去的信息 经验可以存储在记忆中，并可能影响 感知者对类似新体验的反应， 传统观点认为，只有抽象的总结， 过去的经验被储存和使用。 第二个实验 研究了有关类别的知识之间的关系， 人（如种族、职业或性别类别）和 在人的感知中的刻板印象。 最后，第六个将使用计算机模拟来调查 ASC理论的各个部分是否可以协同工作， 产生关于社会行为的现实预测，以及 这些预测是否与人类的实际观察相符 实验情境下的行为。

Approaching Social Cognition (ASC) is a new theory of social cognition concerning the social knowledge and cognitive processes that people use to understand and act in the social world. The theory is based on the framework of J. R. Anderson's ACT theory of memory and cognitive processes, but includes a number of extensions, including moods and emotions, our attitudes, opinions, and preferences, how we come to know other people as well as ourselves, and how we produce social behavior. This research includes six experiments that will test and extend various aspects of the theory . Three studies will investigate processes of social cognition, in particular how they increase in speed and become automatic with practice. One experiment will indicate how consistent the practice needs to be in order to increase the efficiency of processes; a second, whether individual differences in personality may be due to differences in people's cognitive processes; and a third, whether the complex relationships between people's verbally expressed attitudes and their actual behavior may be understood by viewing attitudes as cognitive processes. Two studies investigate the nature of organized knowledge and its use in understanding new social experiences. One experiment looks at the possibility that information about particular past experiences may be stored in memory and may influence the perceiver's reactions to similar new experiences, as an alternative to the conventional view that only abstract summaries of past experiences are stored and used. A second experiment examines the relationship between knowledge about categories of people (such as racial, occupational or gender categories) and stereotyping in person perception. Finally, a sixth will use computer simulation to investigate whether the various parts of the ASC theory can work together to generate realistic predictions concerning social behavior, and whether those predictions match actual observations of human behavior in experimental situations.