ABSTRACT
The cognitive revolution within social psychology was occurring at about the same time as that within clinical psychology. Ostrom (1984) noted that social cognition was a popular topic of convention papers and edited volumes during the latter half of the 1970s and the early 1980s. Additionally, the journal Social Cognition appeared in 1982, and the first edition of the Handbook o f Social Cog nition was published in 1984. Today, work concerned with the perception, com prehension, memory, and judgments of the self and other people, as well as the myriad of social factors that can affect such cognitive processes, is a dominant theme in all areas of social psychology.
