Title

Can social interaction constitute social cognition?

Authors

Authors

H. De Jaegher; E. Di Paolo;S. Gallagher

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Trends Cogn. Sci.

Keywords

UNINTENTIONAL INTERPERSONAL COORDINATION; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ORGANIZATION; CONTINGENCY; COMMUNICATION; SENSITIVITY; NETWORKS; DYNAMICS; COMPLEX; OTHERS; Behavioral Sciences; Neurosciences; Psychology, Experimental

Abstract

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. Empirical results already imply that social cognition is not reducible to the workings of individual cognitive mechanisms. To galvanize this interactive turn, we provide an operational definition of social interaction and distinguish the different explanatory roles contextual, enabling and constitutive it can play in social cognition. We show that interactive processes are more than a context for social cognition: they can complement and even replace individual mechanisms. This new explanatory power of social interaction can push the field forward by expanding the possibilities of scientific explanation beyond the individual.

Journal Title

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volume

14

Issue/Number

10

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Document Type

Review

Language

English

First Page

441

Last Page

447

WOS Identifier

WOS:000282860300003

ISSN

1364-6613

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