SPECTATORSHIP AND SOCIAL COGNITION

Social Cognition of Gender and Language

The question, Do men and women use language differently played a central part in the emergence of feminist socio linguistics more than two decades ago, and it casts a long shadow. This paper focuses on the literature that has contributed to the understanding of the major research questions underlying two major strands, language and gender, concentrating on the development of the literature from...

Social Ontology and Social Cognition

The aim of this paper is to show that there is a reciprocal dependency relationship between social cognition and social ontology. It is argued that, on the one hand, the existence conditions of socially meaningful objects and of social groups are about sucjets’ social cognitive processes and interactive patterns and, on the other hand, social cognitive processes and interactive patterns are mod...

Attitudes and Social Cognition

Three experiments were conducted to examine the effects of alcohol consumption on the self-aware state. Based on a model proposed by Hull (1981). it was predicted that alcohol would reduce self-awareness, In Experiment I. subjects consumed either alcohol or tonic and then gave short speeches about themselves. All subjects expected to consume alcohoL The speeches were coded for frequency of self...

Social Cognition and Cultivation

Apparatus , Genre , and Spectatorship in the Classroom

When I observe my five-year-old grandson, Henry, navigate the levels of difficulty of a video game in which he chooses a hero who has to overcome obstacles and zap anyone who gets in his way, I wonder at his dexterity as he rapidly manipulates the control panel with ten fingers going all at once, his eyes glued to the images on the TV monitor, taking in the action he seems to be controlling. An...