Cognition as a Mechanical Process

The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling

Examining the process of social cognition in schizophrenia disorder

Individuals with schizophrenia show impaired social cognition, which manifests as hardships in identifying emotions, feeing attached to others, deducing people’s thoughts and reacting emotionally to others. These social cognitive impairments impede social connections and are strong determinants of the extent of impaired daily functioning in such individuals.  Here, we review recent findings fr...

the process of social cognition.

in recent years social psychologists have concerned themselves with the ways people classify information about others, store them in their memories, and judge others on. such studies on the process of social cognition have three aspects: structure, process, and causes: i.e. (i) the structure of the social knowledge, (ii) the process of thinking about others, the performance of cognitive categor...

A Dual Process Theory of Optimistic Cognition

Optimism is a prevalent bias in human cognition including variations like self-serving beliefs, illusions of control and overly positive views of one’s own future. Further, optimism has been linked with both success and happiness. In fact, it has been described as a part of human mental well-being which has otherwise been assumed to be about being connected to reality. In reality, only people s...

Self-directedness: a process approach to cognition

Standard approaches to cognition emphasise structures (representations and rules) much more than processes, in part because this appears to be necessary to capture the normative features of cognition. However the resultant models are inflexible and face the problem of computational intractability. I argue that the ability of real world cognition to cope with complexity results from deep and sub...