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Graumann and Sommer have provided a broad, general analysis of cognitive social psychology that should be of interest to many contemporary scholars. They have done an admirable job of relating schemata (structure) and inference (process) within the larger context of information processing, and several of their criticisms concerning how these concepts have been used are particularly insightful. Because their review is long and occasionally technical, we will limit our own discussion to what we believe to be the most important issues it raises.
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Srull, T.K., Wyer, R.S. (1984). Progress and Problems in Cognitive Social Psychology. In: Royce, J.R., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6450-8_3
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