Social cognition

For the academic journal, see Social Cognition (journal).
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Social cognition is a topic within psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations. It focuses on the role that cognitive processes play in social interactions.[1]

More technically, social cognition refers to how people deal with conspecifics (members of the same species) or even across species (such as pet) information, include four stages: encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing. In the area of social psychology, social cognition refers to a specific approach in which these processes are studied according to the methods of cognitive psychology and information processing theory. According to this view, social cognition is a level of analysis that aims to understand social psychological phenomena by investigating the cognitive processes that underlie them.[2] The major concerns of the approach are the processes involved in the perception, judgment, and memory of social stimuli; the effects of social and affective factors on information processing; and the behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes. This level of analysis may be applied to any content area within social psychology, including research on intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup processes.

The term social cognition has been used in multiple areas in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, most often to refer to various social abilities disrupted in autism,[3] schizophrenia[4] and psychopathy.[5] In cognitive neuroscience the biological basis of social cognition is investigated.[6][7][8] Developmental psychologists study the development of social cognition abilities.[9]

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  2. ^ (International Social Cognition Network: http://www.socialcognition.info)
  3. ^ Striano, T.; Reid, V., eds. (2009). Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-6217-3.
  4. ^ Billeke, P.; Aboitiz, F. (February 2013). "Social cognition in schizophrenia: from social stimuli processing to social engagement". Frontiers in Psychiatry. 4 (4): eCollection 2013. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00004. PMC 3580762. PMID 23444313.
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  7. ^ Cacioppo, J.T. (2002). "Social neuroscience: understanding the pieces fosters understanding the whole and vice versa". American Psychologist. 57 (11): 819–31. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.57.11.819. PMID 12564179.
  8. ^ Adolphs, R. (1999). "Social cognition and the human brain". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 3 (12): 469–79. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.207.7847. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01399-6. PMID 10562726. S2CID 7782899.
  9. ^ Shaffer, D.R.; Kipp, K. (2009). "Chapter 12: Theories of social and cognitive development". Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-495-60171-5.