Concept information
Preferred term
social cognition
Definition
- For thousands of years there has been philosophical debate about what it is that makes humans different from other species of animals on Earth. Whether one believes that humans are just another step in the evolutionary process or descended from aliens, there is no denying that humans are different from other animals. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Social Cognition]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- accessibility
- accountability (psychology)
- accuracy of eyewitness descriptions
- accuracy of personality judgments
- action identification theory
- actor-observer asymmetries
- adaptive unconscious
- alcohol myopia effect
- anchoring and adjustment heuristic
- assimilation processes
- associative networks
- attention (psychology)
- attribution
- attributional ambiguity
- attribution and primary effect
- attribution theory
- automatic processes
- availability heuristic
- bad is stronger than good
- Barnum effect
- base rate fallacy
- basking in reflected glory
- belief perseverance
- central traits versus peripheral traits
- confirmation bias
- consciousness
- contrast effects
- controlled processes
- correspondence bias
- correspondent inference theory
- counterfactual thinking
- creativity
- curiosity
- cutting off reflected failure
- debiasing
- defensive attribution
- depressive realism
- diagnosticity
- dilution effect
- discounting principle of attribution
- distinctiveness principle of attribution
- double bind
- downward social comparison
- dual process theories
- egocentric bias
- encoding
- excuse
- expectancy effects
- false consciousness
- false consensus effect
- false uniqueness bias
- focalism
- fundamental attribution error
- gain-loss framing
- gambler's fallacy
- halo effect
- heuristic processing
- heuristic-systematic model of persuasion
- hostile attribution bias
- hostile media bias
- hot hand effect
- illusory correlation
- implicit personality theory
- inferences
- integrative complexity
- interpersonal cognition
- justice motive
- just world hypothesis
- kelley's covariation model
- lay epistemics
- lowballing
- matching hypothesis
- meaning maintenance model
- memory
- memory and primary effect
- metacognition
- mimicry
- mind-wandering
- misattribution of arousal
- moral emotions
- moral reasoning
- motivated cognition
- motivated reasoning
- mum effect
- nonconscious processes
- omission neglect
- person perception
- person-positivity heuristic
- positive-negative asymmetry
- prescriptive and descriptive norms
- priming
- projection
- prototypes
- recency effect
- responsibility attribution
- risk appraisal
- salience
- satisficing
- schemas
- scripts
- self-reference effect
- self-serving bias
- self-verification theory
- shifting standards
- similarity-attraction effect
- social categorization
- social cognitive neuroscience
- social comparison
- social impact theory
- social projection
- spontaneous trait inferences
- spreading of alternatives
- subliminal perception
- subtyping
- symbolic interactionism
- theory of mind
- thin slices of behavior
- three-dimensional model of attribution
- transactive memory
- value pluralism model
- victim blaming
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/social_cognition
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