An important shift is taking place in social cognition research, away from a focus on the
individual mind and toward embodied and participatory aspects of social understanding …

Research on social cognition needs to overcome a disciplinary disintegration. On the one
hand, in cognitive science and philosophy of mind–even in recent embodied approaches …

The scientific study of social cognition is a growing field which promises to deliver valuable
insights into how the brain underpins human's social success. However, the poor ecological …

Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of
social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific …

Social psychology is poised to realize the synthesis envisioned in the “The Sovereignty of
Social Cognition” by the late Thomas Ostrom (1984), who defined social cognition as “the …

A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are
steeped in situated interaction. That social interaction matters is recognized by any …

Traditional theory of mind (ToM) accounts for social cognition have been at the basis of most
studies in the social cognitive neurosciences. However, in recent years, the need to go …

Since the late 1970s, theorizing in psychological social psychology has been dominated by
the computer metaphor of information processing models, which fostered an emphasis on …

Enactive approaches to social understanding have been the subject of much development
and debate over the last few years. We think that these debates are fruitful, but sometimes it …

Social‐cognitive principles underlie people's learning about what matters in the social world.
The benefits of these social‐cognitive principles reveal essential aspects of what it means to …