The Message Within: The Role of Subjective Experience In Social Cognition And Behavior

This volume provides an overview of the role of various subjective experiences in social cognition and behaviour, and argues that the study of such experiences may be one of the key unifying themes of social psychology. Based on theoretical and empirical developments in the discipline, contributors survey extensive evidence and show that subjective experiences play a key role in most aspects of social cognition and social behaviour. The subjective experiences discussed include affective states, metacognitive feelings, feelings of uncertainty, ease of retrieval, feelings of familiarity, feelings of knowing and primed prior experiences.