Navigating Social Life: on Social Cognition in Health and Psychosis

Advancing Global Health – The Need for (Better) Social Science; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”

In his perspective “Navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” Ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. This comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

Navigating Social Life: on Social Cognition

The Effectiveness of Social Skills training Based on Ozonoff Social Cognition Pattern on Empathy and Social Interaction of Children with High Functioning Autism

Background and Purpose: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that occurs in the first three years of a childchr('39')s life. The most important symptoms are communication failure, difficulty in social interactions, limited and repetitive patterns in behavior, interests and activities. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of social skills training bas...

Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health

Global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. To arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. But there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

O17: Social Cognition in Patients with Anxiety Disorders

Social cognition is defined as the capacity to generate, perceive and interpret and responses to the dispositions, intentions and behaviors of other people. It includes different specific cognitive processes that underlie social interactions. Four domains of social cognition are named Theory of Mind (also known as mentalizing), emotion recognition, social perception and attributional style. Anx...