ABSTRACT
Social cognition and health psychology research share three common features. First, each field has a predisposition toward intraindividualistic explanations (i.e., a focus on the internal, psychological processes of the individual). Individuals are seen as constructing their own perceptions of reality and then operating with in that constructed reality. More specifically, important roles are played by per ceptual, interpretational, inferential, memorial, judgmental, and decision making processes in the theories of both areas.
