Social Cognition

Running head: SOCIAL COGNITION
SOCIAL COGNITION
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SOCIAL COGNITION1
Social cognition is defined as a set or collection of emotional and cognitive processes
using which an individual can remember, analyse, interpret and practice crucial information
regarding the communal or social world. Social cognition refers to different attributes like the
way an individual think and the way an individual behave or react. Social cognition is
included under the concept of social psychology and denotes the thought process and the
relationship between people who are connected to them throughout their life time (Donohew,
Sypher and Higgins). Improved social relationship helps an individual to store or collect
information in their brain as a part of their life experience, thus enhancing the overall social
cognition.
Social problems or issue are the factors that is disturbing the overall social
communication system among people. I would like to improve the health and emotional
problems by decreasing the societal problems and widening the communication in between
the community (Seyfarth and Cheney). The interpersonal problems that arise due to lack of
cognitive process like disagreement between people and their thoughts can be reduced by
increasing or enhancing the social cognition or problem solving skills. Social determinants
like lack of education and unemployment can be reduced by increasing the focus of cognitive
process in enhancing our social interactions.
The concept of social cognition is interesting as it increases the capability of people to
interpret their emotions, their way of thinking and also identifies their individual cause of
sadness or happiness. Social cognition increases the decision-making ability of an individual
by enhancing the overall understanding of perceptions and interpretations that will help an
individual to grow and understand other people in a better way (Bradford, Jentzsch and
Gomes). Social cognition is an interesting concept or idea that will help people from various
community to increase their understanding and psychological needs to effectively