Social cognition refers to the cognitive processes through which individuals perceive, interpret, organize, and use information about themselves, other people, and social situations [1][2]. It includes processes such as social perception, person perception, attribution, impression formation, categorization, memory for social information, emotion understanding, and reasoning about others’ thoughts and intentions [1][3]. Social cognition enables individuals to make sense of social environments and guides judgments, attitudes, decisions, and behaviors during social interactions [2][4]. These processes may operate through both automatic and controlled mechanisms and are influenced by prior knowledge, expectations, motivations, cultural experiences, and social contexts [3][4]. Research on social cognition examines how people construct representations of the social world and how these representations affect interpersonal relationships, group processes, and responses to social influence.
- social cognition
- social perception
- social information processing
- attribution
- interpersonal behavior
- social influence
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