Social cognition

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The mental processes involved in perceiving, understanding, and responding to the social world.

Theory of mind: The ability to understand other people's mental states and beliefs.
Social perception: The cognitive processes involved in perceiving and processing information about other people.
Attribution theory: How people explain the causes of behavior.
Social influence: The power and impact of social situations and the pressure of norms and expectations.
Social categorization: How people classify and group others based on common characteristics such as race or gender.
Stereotyping: A generalized belief or assumption about a particular group of people.
Self-concept: How people view themselves and their personality traits and characteristics.
Social identity: How people align themselves with particular social groups and how these groups influence behavior.
Emotion and affect: The role emotions play in social interactions and how these emotions are expressed and perceived.
Nonverbal communication: How people communicate through body language and facial expressions.
Theory of Mind: Knowing that others have beliefs, intentions, and desires that are different from one's own.
Social Comparison: Assessing one's abilities, opinions, and feelings by comparing oneself to others.
Stereotyping: Assigning group characteristics to individuals based on their membership in a particular social group.
Attribution: Inferring the causes of others' behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.
Emotional Contagion: Mimicking or feeling the emotions of others in the same or similar social contexts.
Social Identity: Identifying oneself as a member of a particular social group and taking on its shared values, beliefs, and attitudes.
Persuasion: Convincing others to change their beliefs or behaviors based on logical or emotional appeals.
Empathy: Understanding and sharing the feelings of others.
Social Facilitation: Improving performance in the presence of others.
Self-monitoring: Adapting one's behavior, speech, and attitudes to fit different social situations.
Intergroup Relations: Understanding and managing interactions between different social groups.
Social Learning: Acquiring knowledge and skills through observation and interaction with others.
Social Exclusion: Being left out of social groups or activities and experiencing negative emotions as a result.
"Social cognition is a topic within psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations."
"Social cognition refers to how people deal with conspecifics or pet information, including four stages: encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing."
"Social cognition refers to a specific approach in which these processes are studied according to the methods of cognitive psychology and information processing theory."
"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, schizophrenia, and psychopathy."
"In cognitive neuroscience, the biological basis of social cognition is investigated."
"Developmental psychologists study the development of social cognition abilities."
"It focuses on the role that cognitive processes play in social interactions."
"This level of analysis aims to understand social psychological phenomena by investigating the cognitive processes that underlie them."
"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" are of concern in social cognition.
"The behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes" are important in this area of analysis.
"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, schizophrenia, and psychopathy."
"This level of analysis aims to understand social psychological phenomena by investigating the cognitive processes that underlie them."
"In cognitive neuroscience, the biological basis of social cognition is investigated."
"Developmental psychologists study the development of social cognition abilities."
"Social cognition is a topic within psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations."
"Social cognition refers to how people deal with conspecifics or pet information, including four stages: encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing."