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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778432803321

Titolo

Metacognition [[electronic resource] ] : cognitive and social dimensions / / edited by Vincent Y. Yzerbyt, Guy Lories and Benoit Dardenne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1998

ISBN

1-4462-7921-9

9786612337024

1-282-33702-5

1-84920-818-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 253 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YzerbytVincent

LoriesGuy

DardenneBenoit

Disciplina

153.4

Soggetti

Metacognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a conference held in Louvain-la-Neuve, May 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 - From Social Cognition to Metacognition; 2 - Illusions of Knowing: The Link between Knowledge and Metaknowledge; 3 - Rapid Feeling-of-Knowing: A Strategy Selection Mechanism; 4 - The Feeling-of-Knowing as a Judgment; 5 - Knowing Thyself and Others: Progress Metacognitive Social Psychology; 6 - Social Influence on Memory; 7 - Beliefs, Confidence and the Widows Ademoski: On Knowing What We Know about Others; 8 - Social Judgeability Concerns In Impression Formation

9 - The Consciousness of Social Beliefs: A Program of Research on Stereotyping and Prejudice10 - Protecting Our Minds: The Role of Lay Beliefs; 11 - The Metacognition of Bias Correction: Naive Theories of Bias and the Flexible Correction Model; 12 - Correction and Metacognition: Are People Naive Dogmatists or Naive Empiricists during Social Judgments?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this work the international team of contributors address key questions related to metacognition, including whether our metacognitive knowledge affects our behavioural choices and how people reflect on their cognitive processes.