Can social interaction constitute social cognition?

    Authors

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

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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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