OBJECTIVE Emotion recognition has been widely studied in Huntington disease (HD), but only a few studies have investigated more complex social cognition and, when so, exclusively in manifest HD. The present study sought to investigate social-cognitive functions in a large, consecutive cohort of premanifest and manifest HD gene expansion carriers using tests assessing sarcasm detection, theory o...

BACKGROUND Social-cognitive deficits have a significant impact on the community and vocational functioning of persons with schizophrenia. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the relationship between social-cognitive abilities and vocational functioning in a Chinese population. METHOD We recruited 30 outpatients with schizophrenia to participate. We administered the Chinese Social Cognitio...

Social cognition is a functionally relevant predictor of capacity in schizophrenia (SZ), though research concerning its value for bipolar disorder (BD) is limited. The current investigation examined the relationship between two social cognitive factors and functional capacity in bipolar disorder. This study included 48 individuals with bipolar disorder (24 with psychotic features) and 30 patien...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To measure the association between physical activity and social cognitive theory constructs during breast cancer treatment. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Midwestern, academic oncology clinic. SAMPLE 21 primarily Caucasian (90%) female patients with breast cancer undergoing treatment. 76% were > 50 years old; 76% had stage I or II disease. 17 completed the study...

OBJECTIVES We draw on cognitive discrepancy theory to hypothesize and test a pathway from poor health to loneliness in later life. We hypothesize that poor health will have a negative influence on social participation and social resources, and these factors will mediate between health and loneliness. We hypothesize that rural environments will amplify any difficulties associated with social par...

We investigate a general cognitive model of group behaviors, based on Festinger’s social comparison theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology theory. We describe two possible implementations of SCT process at an architectural level, on the basis of the Soar cognitive architecture. The first, which seems to follow directly from Festinger’s social comparison theory, treats the SCT process as an...