1st Edition
Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Social Cognition Recent Advances and Future Questions
This book introduces social cognition from multidisciplinary perspectives, exploring in detail how individuals perceive, interpret, and respond to social stimuli throughout different stages of life.
The book is organized into five parts, and each chapter provides a concise introduction to a specific topic within social cognition, followed by an in-depth exploration of prominent areas of research, the impact of technology, and potential future questions. The book covers core principles of social cognition alongside application in clinical interventions, with topics including how social cognition evolves throughout the lifespan, the impact of technology and social media on social cognition, and how conditions like autism, schizophrenia, and dementia affect social processing. It links social cognition with critical cognitive domains, including attention, memory, and decision-making, highlighting how these processes interact in shaping social behaviour. The book also combines cross-cultural research with relevant studies to show the differences and similarities in social cognition across geographical distances. Each part concludes with guided questions and answers for students to test their understanding knowledge and learning outcomes. By synthesizing current research and identifying future directions, this book offers valuable insights and potential solutions to the complex challenges in the field of social cognition.
Bringing together foundational concepts with advances in the field, the book is ideal reading for students of social psychology, cognitive psychology, social neuroscience, and neuropsychology. It will also be of interest to students and researchers of clinical psychology, providing a foundation for future research in applied settings.
Part 1: What Is Social Cognition and How Is It Studied? 1. Social Cognition and Its Emergence 2. Methods, Procedures, Latest Trends in Social Cognition Research Part 1: Guided Questions and Answers Part 2: Cognitive Perspective: How Cognition Processes Social Situations 3. Attention and Perception in the Social Cognition 4. Affect Motivation and Behaviour 5. Memory, Learning, and Language in the Social Cognition 6. Applied Decision-Making 7. Information Processing and Social Media Part 2: Guided Questions and Answers Part 3: Social Perspective: Cognition Underpinning Social Behaviour 8. Social Cognition and Attitude, and Attribution 9. Prejudice and Stereotype 10. Theory of Mind, Self and Others 11. Social Perceptions and the Online World 12. Understanding Cross-Cultural Perspective in Social Cognition Part 3: Guided Questions and Answers Part 4: Social Cognition Across the Lifespan and Clinical Presentation 13. Social Cognition in Early Years - Infancy and Adolescence 14. Social Cognition and Ageing 15. Impact of Technology on Lifespan Development 16. Social Cognition in Clinical Disorders Part 4: Guided Questions and Answers Part 5: Applications 17. Interventions using Social Cognition 18. Application on the Social World – Design thinking, UX/UI research, Digital Communication 19. Rehabilitation: Improving Social Cognitive Skills Part 5: Guided Questions and Answers
Biography
K. Jayasankara Reddy is Professor of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Christ University, Bangalore, India.
Bhasker Malu is Associate Professor at the Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences (JIBS) at O.P. Jindal Global University, India
