Electronic mail may be sent via the Internet to [email protected]. Unconscious Relational Self 2 T he Unconscious Relational Self T he notion that previous knowledge is brought to bear in extracting and constructing meaning is fundamental in social cognition. This process can be understood in terms of mental representations of self and of others, representations that give both idiosyncratic and shar...

Past studies have pointed out that social representations on AIDS, aging and the body might be connected. The present paper reports an exploratory study that aims at characterizing their relationships. The sample was composed of 1118 secondary school and university undergraduate students, who completed a questionnaire about one of the three objects. The main task was to choose 3 of 12 words ext...

The general aim of the contributions to this special issue was to foster learning in computer supported collaborative learning environments by designing instructional interventions that enhance collaboration between learners. Scripts and external representations were used as instructional interventions to support social and cognitive processes, respectively, during collaborative learning. Altho...

entangled with their historical and cultural contexts, sociological theories come into existence and try to explain social phenomena of their own society. hence, practitioners of other milieus with different accumulation of cultural traits must be aware of how they use non-native theories. a wide range of iranian sociological investigations, unfortunately, take benefit of western social scienti...

A panel at ICIS 2005 in Las Vegas, NV questioned how social representations (SR) theory could illuminate central questions related to the research and practice of Knowledge Management (KM). The panel included IS researchers who examined different aspects of SR theory and their implications for the understanding of knowledge and knowledge management dynamics. The topics covered in the panel and ...

Empathy is a cornerstone of social behavior, impairments of which are characteristic of neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and psychopathy. According to the "shared representations" theory, empathy relies on neural processes similar to those underpinning the first-hand experience of a given emotion. A recent study by Mischkowski, Crocker, and Way (Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 11: 1345-1353, ...