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Category Archives: Social cognition
How social cognition can inform social decision making
Social decision-making is often complex, requiring the decision-maker to make inferences of others’ mental states in addition to engaging traditional decision-making processes like valuation and reward processing. A growing body of research in neuroeconomics has examined decision-making involving social and … Continue reading
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Conceptual Foundations of Human Social Cognition
The ability to represent, conceptualize, and reason about mental states is one of the greatest achievements of human evolution. Having an appreciation for the workings of the mind is considered a prerequisite for natural language acquisition, strategic social interaction, reflexive thought, and … Continue reading
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Costly rejection of Wrongdoers by Infants and Children
How unappealing are individuals who behave badly towards others? We show here that children and even infants, although motivated by material rewards, are nonetheless willing to incur costs to avoid “doing business” with a wrongdoer. When given the choice to … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cognitive development, Cooperation, Infants, Social cognition
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Social Cognition, Artefacts, and Stigmergy revisited: Concepts of coordination
A number of different coordination concepts have been developed to explain how individual activities are coordinated on a social level, and the variety of concepts shows there is an interest in many domains to find such explanations. Stigmergy being one … Continue reading
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Emotion and Social Cognition
Two paradigms have guided emotion research over the past decades. The dual-system view embraces the long-held Western belief, espoused most prominently by decision-making and social cognition researchers, that emotion and reason are often at odds. The integrative view, which asserts … Continue reading
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Language, Meaning, and Social Cognition
Social cognition is meant to examine the process of meaningful social interaction. Despite the central involvement of language in this process, language has not received the focal attention that it deserves. Conceptualizing meaningful social interaction as the process of construction … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Meaning, Semiotic, Social cognition, Social interaction
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The Science of Social Emergence
Sociology should be the foundational science of social emergence. But to date, sociologists have neglected emergence, and studies of emergence are more common within microeconomics. Moving forward, I argue that a science of social emergence requires two advances beyond current … Continue reading
Posted in Agents, Multi-agent systems, Social cognition, Social emergence, Social relationships, Society
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Personal Relationships as an Interface between Social Networks and Social Cognitions
The concept of shared knowledge structures is introduced as one way of demonstrating how personal relationships serve as a bridge between collective activity at the level of the social network and cognitive activity at the level of the individual. The … Continue reading
Evolutionary Social Psychology
In this chapter, we review the current state of evolutionary social psychology. We begin with a brief primer on exactly what evolutionary social psychology is and is not, articulating its assumptions and the tools it provides for inquiry into social … Continue reading
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Social Neuroscience – toward Understanding the underpinnings of the Social Mind
The objective of this book is to introduce social cognitive neuroscience research that addresses questions of fundamental importance to social psychology, combining multiple methodologies in innovative ways. The book is divided into four sections. The first section deals with understanding … Continue reading
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