PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Overview and Basic Concepts PART II: BASIC PROCESSES IN SOCIAL INFERENCE 2. Scripts, Schemata and Implicational Molecules: A Conceptualization of Complex Information Processing 3. A Preliminary Model of Person Memory 4. The Encoding of Information and Its Effects on Recall and Inference Making PART III: IDENTIFYING THE IMPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION FOR JUDGMENTS 5. Characteristics of Information that Affect Its Perceived Implications 6. Indirect Effects of Information on Judgments 7. The Role of Syllogistic Reasoning in Inferences Based Upon New and Old Information PART IV: INTEGRATION PROCESSES 8. Algebraic Inference Processes 9. Generalization Processes 10. Epilogue
Robert S. Wyer, Jr. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; DONAL E. Carlston University of Iowa