Using Virtual Characters to Study Human Social Cognition

2016 ◽  
pp. 494-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Hamilton ◽  
Xueni Sylvia Pan ◽  
Paul Forbes ◽  
Jo Hale
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Virtual Characters

Refining our understanding of the “elephant in the room”

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Whiten
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Technological Culture

Abstract The authors do the field of cultural evolution a service by exploring the role of non-social cognition in human cumulative technological culture, truly neglected in comparison with socio-cognitive abilities frequently assumed to be the primary drivers. Some specifics of their delineation of the critical factors are problematic, however. I highlight recent chimpanzee–human comparative findings that should help refine such analyses.

A little too technical: The threat of intellectualising technical reasoning

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
Technical Reasoning

Abstract Osiurak and Reynaud (O&R) claim that research into the origin of cumulative technological culture has been too focused on social cognition and has consequently neglected the importance of uniquely human reasoning capacities. This commentary raises two interrelated theoretical concerns about O&R's notion of technical-reasoning capacities, and suggests how these concerns might be met.

Are Deficits in Social Cognition Linked to Autobiographical Memory in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease?

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes H. Scheidemann ◽  
Franz Petermann ◽  
Marc Schipper
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery ◽  
Fluency Task

Abstract. We investigated theory of mind (ToM) deficits in Alzheimer‘s disease (AD) and its possible connection to autobiographical memory (ABM). Patients and matched controls were evaluated and compared using a video-based ToM test, an autobiographical fluency task, and a neuropsychological test battery. We found that ToM deficits were positively associated with semantic ABM in the clinical group, whereas a positive relationship appeared between ToM and episodic ABM in controls. We hypothesize that this reflects the course of the disease as well as that semantic ABM is used for ToM processing, being still accessible in AD. Furthermore, we assume that it is also less efficient, which in turn leads to a specific deficit profile of social cognition.

What Does It Take to Activate Stereotypes? Simple Primes Don’t Seem Enough

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Müller ◽  
Klaus Rothermund
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Response Priming ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Stereotype Activation

According to social cognition textbooks, stereotypes are activated automatically if appropriate categorical cues are processed. Although many studies have tested effects of activated stereotypes on behavior, few have tested the process of stereotype activation. Blair and Banaji (1996) demonstrated that subjects were faster to categorize first names as male or female if those were preceded by gender congruent attribute primes. The same, albeit smaller, effects emerged in a semantic priming design ruling out response priming by Banaji and Hardin (1996) . We sought to replicate these important effects. Mirroring Blair and Banaji (1996) we found strong priming effects as long as response priming was possible. However, unlike Banaji and Hardin (1996) , we did not find any evidence for automatic stereotype activation, when response priming was ruled out. Our findings suggest that automatic stereotype activation is not a reliable and global phenomenon but is restricted to more specific conditions.

Putting the Social Back Into Social Cognition

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 522-523
Author(s):  
Bernard E. Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
The Social

Putting the “Social” Back Into Social Cognition: A View From Down Under

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
Julie Fitness
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
The Social

Social Cognition and Psychology

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 845-846
Author(s):  
Dianne M. Tice ◽  
Roy F. Baumeister
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition

To Judge or Not to Judge: A Motivated Social Cognition Approach to Intergroup Relations

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 928-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Stangor
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Motivated Social Cognition

The Development of Social Cognition: Novel, Familiar, and Missing Snapshots

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition

Social cognition: More than just a "clash of conversational worlds"

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1005-1005
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Forgas
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition
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