#SocialCognition

Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦SCZoomers@mstdn.ca
2025-06-16
Radical AnthropologyRadicalAnthro@c.im
2025-06-15

Really interesting, on the effects of #mother-child interactions on the development of the 'social brain' and Theory of Mind.

#childdevelopment #socialcognition

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre

Geekoogeekoo
2025-04-26

AI may excel at data analysis, but when it comes to understanding human interactions, it still can't match our innate social intelligence.

geekoo.news/ai-still-cant-read

2025-02-11

⏰ Save the date! #IWMLecture by Asst. Prof. Brendan Rooney: Using media & entertainment to explore emotion and social cognition

➡️ Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 13 – 15 pm (large conference room 2, IWM/Schleichstr. 6,Tübingen).

✔️ Participation online: please send an 📧 e-mail to redaktion(at)iwm-tuebingen.de

#SocialCognition #psychology #media #emotion

Speaker: Dr. Brendan Rooney is Assistant Professor in the UCD School of Psychology and Director of the Media and Entertainment Psychology Lab at the University College in Dublin, IE
 
Title: UCD ME_Lab: Using media and entertainment to explore emotion and social cognition.
 
Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of the lab’s research, from studies examining cognition and emotion in media contexts to applied projects aimed at enhancing well-being through immersive technology. Current work explores how media design elements interact with emotional and cognitive responses, with a focus on executive function, subjective realism, and social cognition. The talk will also present ongoing applied research aimed at supporting well-being, with immersive media such as VR and music in healthcare contexts. This research aims to create meaningful entertainment experiences and investigate how immersive media can empower individuals to foster positive outcomes.
Samuel Bellsamuelbell
2024-03-06

An early memory aid that presents a series of objects to memorize, on the left, and their locations, on the right.

Woodcut – Romberch (1553) – Abbey Memory System, early evidence of metacognitive beliefs about memory processes.

SOURCE: Metacognition by Dunlosky & Metcalfe, 2008

Take part in a study of metacognitive judgments

Link:
bellsamuel.github.io/metacogni

A woodcut, depicting a memory an early memory aid called The Abbey Memory System. Created in 1553 by Johannes Romberch.
Marine Mas, PhDphdmas@sciences.social
2023-07-12

interesting upcoming #Workshop: "From self-knowledge to knowing others:New advances in characterizing socio-cognitive dysfunctions in the general and clinical populations" ~ 31 Aug.t - 1st Sept. 2023. In #Brussels and #online.
More info and registration: sites.uclouvain.be/self-knowin
#socialcognition

Nadiah Kristensennadiah@fediscience.org
2023-02-09

I really learnt a lot from this recent review paper about collaboration in other animals

How animals collaborate: Underlying proximate mechanisms by Shona Duguid and Alicia Melis in WIREs Cognitive Science

wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

#apes #collaboration #comparativepsychology #cooperation #socialcognition #sharedintentionality

Sho Ishiguro, PhDSho_Ishiguro@home.social
2022-12-28

A friend's words, "that's great", may mean "that's great" or "that's NOT great at all" (sarcasm). A key feature of social stimuli is uncertainty.

Berkay and Jenkins (in press) showed that DMPFC is sensitive to uncertainty even in nonsocial tasks! The dichotomy of social vs. nonsocial would be better re-conceptualized as a continuum of uncertainty, and thus social cognition may be situated within the domain-general framework.

doi.org/10.1177/17456916221112 #SocialCognition @cognition @socialpsych

2022-12-13

#socialcognition #measurement #replication #psychology

Amazing, honest blog by Chad Drake and his work with the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (#IRAP), a variant of the Implicit Association Test (#IAT).

Conclusion:
"I wasted most of my research career on a measure that has been and continues to be misused and actually seems to be just about useless."

chaddrake.com/2022/12/12/hello

2022-12-11

One of these things is not like the other:

New set of studies finds “that deviancy aversion—people’s domain-general discomfort toward the distortion of patterns (repeated forms or models)—contributes to the strength and prevalence of social norms in society.”

doi.org/10.1177/01461672221131

#Psychology
#SocialPsychology
#SocialScience
@socialpsych
#SocialNorms
#SocialCognition
#Deviance

Abstract We propose that deviancy aversion—people’s domain-general discomfort toward the distortion of patterns (repeated forms or models)—contributes to the strength and prevalence of social norms in society. Five studies (N = 2,390) supported this hypothesis. In Study I, individuals’ deviancy aversion, for instance, their aversion toward broken patterns of simple geometric shapes, predicted negative affect toward norm violations (affect), greater self-reported norm following (behavior), and judging norms as more valuable (belief). Supporting generalizability, deviancy aversion additionally predicted greater conformity on accuracy-orientated estimation tasks (Study 2), adherence to physical distancing norms during COVID-19 (Study 3), and increased following of fairness norms (Study 4). Finally, experimentally heightening deviancy aversion increased participants’ negative affect toward norm violations and self-reported norm behavior, but did not convincingly heighten belief-based norm judgments (Study 5). We conclude that a human sensitivity to pattern distortion functions as a low-level affective process that promotes and maintains social norms in societyExample stimuli used in the study, showing geometric patterns with one shape out of place
2022-11-28

🔔#hiring alert: i will be recruiting PhD students to my new lab at #UWMadison this cycle! (tentatively: the Social Interaction Lab). We are an inclusive and interdisciplinary #CogSci group at the rich intersection of #language, #socialcognition, #neuroscience, and #computation. Please boost and pass along to anyone who may be interested!

🗓️deadline: December 1

🔗 psych.wisc.edu/graduate-progra

👋 what we do: rxdhawkins.com/publications/

2022-11-22

#introduction

Hello!
We are Mahmoud Elsherif, currently a research associate at University of Birmingham(UK) in the School of Psychology with interests in several areas such as #neurodiversity, #openscholarship, #psycholinguistics, #socialcognition and #ageing.

Also, a fan about social justice, accessibility, inclusivity, diversity and equity (JAIDE) issues, in relation to open scholarship.

Cannot wait to meet new people with similar interests.

On a #cognitivescience #cognitivepsychology and #gamestudies note, here's my paper in Acta Psychologica!

A study on how joint action occurs through #avatars in #digitalspace. With a healthy dose of research background and a case study on Final Fantasy XIV.

doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.

Special thanks to co-author (and mentor!!) Cordula Vesper, the Final Fantasy XIV community, and Interacting Minds Centre!

#FINALFANTASYXIV #SocialCognition

2022-11-18

OK, #introduction time

I am an incoming Assistant Professor in #DevPsych at Lehigh University, starting in January. I study #socialdevelopment #psychopathology with a systematic approach that integrates contextual & individual factors, using a range of #qualitative #quantatitive #behavior #questionnaire #neuro methods appropriate for the research question. Currently focusing on #family #culture #nonWEIRD #socialcognition #internalizing but not limited to those as everything is interconnected.

Ian Chandler-CampbellRambleCamble@fediscience.org
2022-11-18

Hi y'all! I'm a developmental psychologist who studies the social-cognitive mechanisms by which children understand information media 📙 🖥️ 🌐 📹

I'm currently a postdoc with @CandiceMMills working on the CRADLE project aimed at improving the accessibility and reproducibility of developmental science in partnership with Children Helping Science and Lookit.

#introduction #developmentalpsychology #childdevelopment #socialcognition

Zhaoning Li|tʂɑu niŋ li|李肇宁lizhn7@sciences.social
2022-11-14

Hi folks 👊, here is my first post through an #introduction!

I am Zhaoning, a PhD student in social psychology at the University of Macau (UM) 🇲🇴 🇨🇳 and a Twitter (@lizhn7) immigrant.

My research interests include #SocialCognition, #SocialNeuroscience, #Mentalising (#读心术) and #ArtificialSocialIntelligence (#ASI).

You can find me at github.com/Das-Boot. Very excited to be part of the #fediverse! 😀

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