Person Schemas and Makdaptive Interpersonal Patterns is the third in a series of edited volumes devoted to a review of recent, cutting-edge research on “person schemas” (i.e., mental representations of the self, other people, and self-other interactions). All three volumes in the series were sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes. Thus, it is not surprising that—in addition to reviewing recent research on person schemas—these three volumes also discuss in detail the nature of conscious and unconscious mental processes and the ways that these processes interact and influence each other. Studies of person schemas and