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Introduction 1
Approaches to Studying the Social Thinker
The Ebb and Flow of Cognition in Psychology
What is Social Cognition?
People are Not Things
Brains Matter
Cultures Matter
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APPROACHES TO STUDYING
THE SOCIAL THINKER
Knowing something of social cognitions intellectual
history gives perspective to researchers current efforts.
This section contrasts two primary approaches that have
proved useful.
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Cognition in Experimental
Psychology
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Mentalism
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WHAT IS SOCIAL
COGNITION?
Cross-Fertilization
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BRAINS MATTER
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in mentalizing and theory of mind tasks. The bottomleft image displays the mirror system. The bottom-right
image displays brain regions identified in studies of
empathy.
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CULTURES MATTER
Summary
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FURTHER READING
Ackerman, J. M., Huang, J. Y., & Bargh, J. A. (2012).
Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition. In S. T.
Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social
cognition (pp. 451473). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Asch, S. E. (1946). Forming impressions of personality.
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 41(3),
258290.
Chiao, J. Y., Cheon, B. K., Bebko, G. M., Livingston, R.
L., & Hong, Y-y. (2012). Gene x environment
interaction in social cognition. In S. T. Fiske & C. N.
Macrae (Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp.
516534). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fiske, S. T. (2012). One word: Plasticity Social
cognitions futures. In S. T. Fiske & C. N. Macrae
(Eds.), Sage handbook of social cognition (pp. 535
541). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The
weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 33(23), 6183.
Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Social cognitive neuroscience.
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