The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Social Cognition
Title: The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Social Cognition
Co-editor: Torsten Reimer
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: February 25, 2026
About the Book: An interdisciplinary handbook that examines how the ways people think shape communication—and how communication, in turn, shapes how people think about the social world. This volume explores how cognitive mechanisms such as perception, emotion, stereotypes, and framing shape how messages are produced, interpreted, and shared across interpersonal, group, and mediated contexts.
About the co-editor: Torsten Reimer is a professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication, director of the College of Liberal Arts Research Academy and the director of the Communication and Cognition Lab. His research explores how communication shapes decision-making, particularly in areas such as social influence, AI and human decision processes, and emerging technologies. Reimer uses experimental and computational methods to study how people process information and make choices individually and in groups. Before joining Purdue, he worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.