title: Introduction: social cognition, psychodynamic psychology, and the representation and processing of emotionally significant information.
abstract: This special issue examines two perspectives on how people comprehend and respond to significant features of their lives: psychoanalytic psychology and social cognition. The articles included present new empirical findings relevant to the overlap of psychoanalysis and social-cognitive psychology, as well as commentaries from each perspective. This introduction summarizes important conceptual and methodological challenges in the integration of two such distinct approaches to emotionally significant information.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Strauman
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000639:trends*