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These results have deepened our understanding of the multiple ways through which culture influences social cognition and have illuminated how people create and apply cultural traditions to meet their psychological needs and adapt to the changing physical and social ecology.
What is different about our approach is that our starting point is from a cognitive perspective, rather than a cultural one, asking why cognitive psychology should care about culture, and what has prevented the field, until recently, from more frequently considering the role of cultural variations.
24 sty 2023 · Social cognition is the cognitive processes that influence social behavior. Learning more about this perspective offers insights into how other people shape our behaviors and choices. It also plays a role in understanding how individual cognitions affect how we perceive and respond to others.
Culture and social cognition is the relationship between human culture and human cognitive capabilities. Cultural cognitive evolution proposes that humans’ unique cognitive capacities are not solely due to biological inheritance, but are in fact due in large part to cultural transmission and evolution (Tomasello, 1999).
Structured in four clear parts, Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture begins with a clear outline of the basic concepts before moving into more topical sections: understanding individual selves and others, followed by making sense of society. The authors finish by looking beyond cognition to affect and behaviour.
1 sty 2016 · Social cognition is the process by which actors, at individual or collective levels, decode and encode their social world, using mental models, knowledge structures and cultural understandings to process information, extract meaning and determine appropriate action.
31 paź 2017 · Cognitive science and the embodied mind theory have created a stronger interdisciplinary connection between cognitive understanding in social science and humanities.
