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Focuses on social inference, the assumptions we make about others such as their personality, status, or attitudes, using a limited amount of information.

What are stereotypes and why do we use them? Are all stereotypes bad? Can we stop people from using them? Questions such as these have fascinated social psychol

What are other people like? How do we decide if someone is friendly, honest or clever? What assumptions do we develop about them and what explanations do we giv

Stereotyping is one of the biggest single issues in social psychology, but relatively little is known about how and why stereotypes form. This is the first book

Exploring the relationship between psychology and history, this book considers how the disciplines could benefit from a closer dialogue.