List of Contributors

Prologue

1. The Interplay of Communication and Social Cognition as a Multidisciplinary Field of Study

Torsten Reimer, Lyn M. van Swol, & Arnd Florack

Section
1. Foundation: The Interplay of Communication, Language, and Cognition

2. Between the Lines: Pragmatic Inferences in (Consumer) Communication

Michaela Wanke

3. How Language Shapes the Way We Think

David M. Markowitz

4. Embodied Metaphors in Social Cognition and Communication

Norbert Schwarz

5. Relevance Theory: Cognition and Meaning

Didier Maillat

6. Language and Social Influence

Lyn M. van Swol, Aimee A. Kane, & Chen-Ting Chang

7. Studying Culture, Social Cognition, and Communication: Theories of the Middle Range

Deborah A. Cai & Edward L. Fink

Section
2. The Construction of a Social Reality and Development of Group Identities

8. The Cultural Phenomenon of Framing: A Theoretical Overview

Julius Matthew Riles

9. Social Sharedness and the Emergence of a Shared Reality in Small Groups

Ernest S. Park & Christine M. Smith

10. Interaction in Small Groups

Joseph A. Bonito

11. A Semiotic Approach to Understanding the Role of Communication in the Construction of the Social Reality

Klaus Fiedler & Karolin Salmen

12. The Linguistic Category Model

Michela Menegatti & Monica Rubini

13. Visual Communication: Fabricated Pictures and Videos

Sijia Qian & Cuihua Shen

14. Models of Social Sampling

Marlene Hecht, Christin Schulze, & Thorsten Pachur

Section
3. Interpersonal Communication: Emotion, Social Influence, and

Information Sharing

15. Emotional Contagion

Arik Cheshin

16. There’s Chemistry Between Us: Unraveling the Mystery of Human Chemical Communication

Jasper H. B. de Groot

17. Message Production: Goal-directed Communication

Tim Worley

18. How Cognitions Shape Social Judgments and How to Use this Knowledge for Persuasion

Christopher J. Carpenter & Hillary C. Shulman

19. Information-Processing Models and Argument-Quality Criteria in Persuasion Research

Torsten Reimer, Christopher Roland, Juan Pablo Loaiza-Ramirez, & Nathanael Johnson

20. The Role of Self-Disclosure in Relationship Escalation

Mina Choi & Catalina L. Toma

21. Deception and Lie Detection

Timothy R. Levine

Section
4. Communication Between Groups: Conflicts, Stereotypes, and Negotiations

22. Intergroup Communication

Jessica Gasiorek

23. Shared Cognition in Negotiation: Moving from Misunderstanding to Mutual Agreement

Leigh Thompson

24. Social Networks

Andrew Pilny & Aaron Schecter

25. Gender-inclusive Language

Magdalena Formanowicz, Magda Leszko, & Karolina Hansen

Section
5. The Digital Turn: Communication Technology, Machines, and the Self

26. Social Media Influences on Mental Health among Adolescents

Lara Schreurs & Steven Eggermont

27. Social Media and Identity Development

Catalina L. Toma & Jinyoung Choi

28. Sustaining Human-AI Collaboration and Teams: Exploring the Interplay Between Ethics and Trust

Subhasree Sengupta, Wen Duan, Christopher Flathmann, & Nathan J. McNeese

29. The Role of Machine Agents in Social Support

Austin J. Beattie

30. Social Responses to Machines

Andrew Prahl

Section
6. Contexts of Communication and Social Cognition: Marketing, Social Media, and Health

31. Risk Communication: Truth and Trickery about Cancer Screening

Gerd Gigerenzer

32. The Social Cognition of Brand Communication

Arnd Florack & Niklas Pivecka

33. Medical Mistrust, Marginalized Communities, and Communication

Lillie D. Williamson & Ashley R. Cate

34. Advice Interaction Through the Social Cognition Lens: Aligning Advisor?Recipient Perceptions

Jihyun Esther Paik

35. Addressing False Brand Information in the Marketplace

Claudiu Dimofte

Section
7. Innovative Methods for Studying Communication and Social Cognition

36. Analyzing Language for Insights into Social and Cognitive Processes

Gerard Yeo & Kokil Jaidka

37. Eye Tracking as a Powerful Tool for Investigating Language Processing in Messages

Elizabeth E. Riggs, Jason C. Coronel, & Hillary C. Shulman

38. Brain Imaging as a Window into the Biological Basis of Social Cognition and Communication

Ralf Schmalzle, Shelby Wilcox, & Richard Huskey

39. Virtual Reality as a Research Tool

Portia Wang & Jeremy N. Bailenson

40. Serious Gaming: Insights into Social Cognition from Gaming Studies

Brett Sherrick & Joshua Kim

Epilogue

41. AI as the Next Frontier in Communication and Social Cognition: Artificial Communication

Lyn M. van Swol, Arnd Florack, & Torsten Reimer

Index