Metacognition - cognitive processes that apply to themselves - is becoming increasingly recognized as a fundamental aspect of human psychology. In this broad-ranging book, a group of internationally renowned authors show how a full analysis of human reasoning and behaviour requires an understanding of both cognitive and metacognitive activities. Important insights from across social and cognitive psychology are drawn together to offer an unmatched overview of this major debate, and a number of key questions are addressed, for example: · Are metacognitive activities similar to standard cognitive processes, or do they represent a separate category? · How do people reflect on their cognitive processes? · Does our metacognitive knowledge affect our behavioural choices? Interdisciplinary and innovative in its approach, Metacognition will be invaluable for students and academics in social and cognitive psychology.
Vincent Y Yzerbyt is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain. He is co-author, with Jacques-Philippe Leyens and Georges Schadron, of
Stereotypes and Social Cognition (SAGE, 1994).
Guy Lories is Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain.
Benoit Dardenne is a Fellow at the Belgian National Science Foundation and Assistant Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain.
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Herbert Blass University of Heidelberg
Asher Koriat University of Haifa
Jacques-Philippe Leyens Catholic University of Louvain
Marie-Anne Schelstraete Catholic University of Louvain
Diedrik A Stapel University of Amsterdam
Fritz Strack University of Wurzburg