Communication, Social Cognition, and Affect

✍ Scribed by Lewis Donohew, Howard E. Sypher, E. Tory Higgins

• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: Psychology Library Editions: Emotion, Volume 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this book was to explore the interrelations among communication, social cognition and affect. The contributors, selected by the editors, were some of the best known in their fields and they significantly added to the knowledge of this interdisciplinary domain at the time. In late April 1986 the authors met at a conference centre at the University of Kentucky. They presented first drafts of their chapters and exchanged ideas. Out of these interactions came this book, which has a broad interest across several areas of psychology and communication. While answering a number of questions, the authors also posed others for future examination.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Original Title
Original Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE ROLES OF SOCIAL COGNITION AND AFFECT IN COMMUNICATION
Summary
2. AUTOMATIC INFORMATION PROCESSING: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION AND AFFECT
The Extent of Automatic Influences
Automatic Processing and Interpersonal Communication
Automatic Versus Goal-Directed Processing in Mass Communication
Automatic Processing and Affect
"To Be or Not To Be Controlled": A Concluding Sermonette
3. SCHEMAS, AFFECT, AND COMMUNICATION
Schemas and Social Cognition
Affect and its Relation to Cognition
Effects of Affective Orientations on Schemas
Summary and Conclusions
4. MOTIVATION AND AFFECT IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS: THE ROLE OF PERSONAL ORIENTATIONS AND DISCREPANCIES
Goal-Oriented Interaction and Affect
Self-Discrepancy and Affect
Concluding Comments
5. AFFECT AND MESSAGE GENERATION
Affect and Cognitive Structure
Cognitive Structure and Communication: The Constructivist Approach
An Investigation of Message Generation and Affect
Summary
6. PLANNING, AFFECT, AND SOCIAL ACTION GENERATION
Toward a Theory of Planning
Planning and Date Getting: Where the Action Is
7. THE ROLE OF AFFECT IN THE ELABORATION LIKELIHOOD MODEL OF PERSUASION
Overview of the Elaboration Likelihood Model
Multiple Roles for Variables in the ELM
Summary
8. MOOD MANAGEMENT: USING ENTERTAINMENT TO FULL ADVANTAGE
Mood Management by Stimulus Arrangements Generally
Mood Management Through Entertainment
Effects of Entertainment on Moods
Tests of Mood Management
Complicating Factors
9. BEHAVIOR AND BIOLOGY: RESEARCH ON SENSATION SEEKING AND REACTIONS TO THE MEDIA
Perceptual and Media Preferences
Arousal and Arousability
Stimulus Intensity Tolerance and Cortical Evoked Potentials
Biochemical Bases of Sensation Seeking
Comments on Other Symposium Papers
10. "THE NATURE OF NEWS" REVISITED: THE ROLES OF AFFECT, SCHEMAS, AND COGNITION
The Nature of News
Cognitively Triggered Arousal
Recent Studies of Arousal and News Exposure
Models for Research on the Nature of News
The Impact of Mental Effort
A Note on Television as a Source of News
Implications for Future Research
Epilogue: The Nature of Social Cognition
11. COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL COGNITION, AND AFFECT: A PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACH
Background
Psychophysiological Perspectives
Inferential Context: Affirming the Consequent Errors and Reverse Engineering Designs
Conclusion
Author Index
Subject Index