List of contributors; Preface; 1. The social psychology of knowledge: its scope and meaning Daniel Bar-Tal and Arie W. Kruglanski; 2. From knowledge to cognition Carl F. Graumann; 3. Knowledge and social process Kenneth J. Gergen; 4. An ecological framework for establishing a dual-mode theory of social knowing Reuben M. Baron; 5. A new perspective for social psychology Daniel Bar-Tal and Yoram Bar-Tal; 6. Knowledge as a social psychological construct Arie W. Kruglanski; 7. Understanding social knowledge: if only the data could speak for themselves Robert S. Wyer, Jr. and Thomas K. Srull; 8. The concept of accuracy in social judgement Reid Hastie and Kenneth A. Rasinski; 9. On the use of statistical and nonstatistical knowledge: a problem-solving approach Yaacov Trope and Zvi Ginossar; 10. Dimensional versus information-processing approaches to social knowledge: the case of inconsistency management Patricia G. Devine and Thomas M. Ostrom; 11. Context-driven social judgement and memory: when 'behaviour engulfs the field' in reconstructive memory E. Tory Higgins and Charles Stangor; 12. Constructing the past: biases in personal memories Michael Ross and Cathy McFarland; 13. Attitudes: a new look at an old concept Mark P. Zanna and John K. Rempel; 14. Mental models of causal reasoning Joseph M. F. Jaspars (edited by Denis Hilton); 15. Causal attribution viewed from an information-processing perspective David L. Hamilton; Indexes.