Contents:
Part 1: Introduction. Social Perception from Individuals to Groups: An Introduction, J.W. Sherman, S.J. Stroessner. Dave and Me: A History of Our Collaboration, S.J. Sherman. Part 2: Perceiving Persons: Impression Formation. The Mental Representation of Persons, Events and Behavioral Mindsets. R.S. Wyer, Jr. Causes and Causal Attributions: Questions Raised by Dave Hamilton and Spontaneous Trait Inferences, J.S. Uleman. From Idiosyncratic Impressions to Distributed Impressions of Others: A Case for Collaborative Person Memory, L.Garcia-Marques, M. Vaz Garrido. Part 3: Perceiving Persons and Groups: Processes in Impression Formation and Stereotyping. When Literatures Collide: Synergies Between Stereotyping and Impression Formation, D.E. Carlston, E.D. Schneid. Variations on a Theme: Attentional Processes in Group and Individual Perception, J.W. Sherman, D.L.M. Sacchi, L. Huang. Two (or more?) Cognitive Approaches to Stereotype Formation: Biased or Reality-based?, R. Spears, W. Stroebe. Part 4: Perceiving Groups: Entitativity. Motivated Entitativity: When We’d Rather See the Forest Than the Trees, M.B. Brewer. Inferring Group Traits and Group Goals: A Unified Approach to Social Perception, S.J. Stroessner, C.S. Dweck. Generalization Processes in Collective Responsibility and Intergroup Conflict, B. Lickel, M. Onuki. Essentialism in Language: Plagiarizing David Hamilton, A. Maass, A. Carnaghi, T. Rakić.

Summary:This volume focuses on social perception, the processing of information about people. This issue has always been central to social psychology, but this book brings together literatures that in large part have been separated by the nature of the social target that is involved.