BACKGROUND Social cognition has been identified as a significant construct for schizophrenia research with relevance to diagnosis, assessment, treatment and functional outcome. However, social cognition has not been clearly understood in terms of its relationships with neurocognition and functional outcomes. The present study sought to examine the empirical independence of social cognition and ...

Please cite this article in press as: Seyfart j.anbehav.2015.01.030 The social intelligence hypothesis argues that competition and cooperation among individuals have shaped the evolution of cognition in animals. What do we mean by social cognition? Here we suggest that the building blocks of social cognition are a suite of skills, ordered roughly according to the cognitive demands they place up...

transAtlantic migration lasting a period of years. Turtles enter the North Atlantic gyre, a circular current system that flows around the Sargasso Sea, and many cross to the eastern side of the Atlantic before returning to North America. The turtles have a strong need to remain within the gyre: if they stray too far north they risk death in cold waters, whereas going too far south may cause the...

Despite the growing importance of social cognition in schizophrenia, fundamental issues concerning the nature of social cognition in schizophrenia remain unanswered. One issue concerns the strength of the relationships between social cognition and key features of the disorder such as neurocognitive deficits and negative symptoms. The current study employed structural equation modeling to examin...

Social cognition concerns the various psychological processes that enable individuals to take advantage of being part of a social group. Of major importance to social cognition are the various social signals that enable us to learn about the world. Such signals include facial expressions, such as fear and disgust, which warn us of danger, and eye gaze direction, which indicate where interesting...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (1920–1980) 811 A FRESH START 812 INFANT SOCIAL COGNITION 813 The Detection of Goal-Directed Agency 813 Emotion and Preverbal Dialogue 816 Gaze Following and Social Referencing 817 Comforting and Helping 818 Offering Help and Cooperation 820 Hurting and Teasing 821 MENTAL STATE UNDERSTANDING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD 822 Goals, Desires, and Intentions 822 Beliefs 823 Perception, ...

Abstract: Researchers in the enactivist tradition have recently argued that social interaction can constitute social cognition, rather than simply serve as the context for social cognition. They contend that a focus on social interaction corrects the overemphasis on mechanisms inside the individual in the explanation of social cognition. I critically assess enactivismʼs claims about the explana...

Social cognition research investigates the way information present in the social environment is represented and used in adaptively guiding behavior. Representations of persons and of social relationships form the basic building blocks of social cognition, and we review what is known about how such representations are constructed and constituted. In particular, we review a range of mechanisms wh...

Although autism spectrum disorder is defined by reciprocal social-communication impairments, several studies have found no evidence for altered social cognition test performance. This study examined explicit (i.e. prompted) and implicit (i.e. spontaneous) variants of social cognition testing in autism spectrum disorder. A sample of 19 adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and 19 carefully m...