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| | Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome |
 | | Examples of topics appropriate for the journal include emotional appraisals; effects of emotion or mood on cognition and motivation; the nature of emotional experience; self-regulation of emotion or mood; social, historical, or cultural aspects of emotion; and the nature of particular emotions or emotionality in general. |  | | Cognition and Emotion is devoted to the study of emotion, especially to those aspects of emotion related to mental processes. |  | | The journal aims to bring together work on emotion undertaken by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, and cognitive science; it also welcomes psychologically oriented submissions from those in philosophy, computer science, the humanities, anthropology, sociology, and other social sciences. |
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http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pp/02699931.html
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| | Funderstanding - Vygotsky and Social Cognition |
 | | The social cognition learning model asserts that culture is the prime determinant of individual development. |  | | In short, according to the social cognition learning model, culture teaches children both what to think and how to think. |  | | Cognitive development results from a dialectical process whereby a child learns through problem-solving experiences shared with someone else, usually a parent or teacher but sometimes a sibling or peer. |
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http://www.funderstanding.com/vygotsky.cfm
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| | Cognitive |
 | | Site provides 10 different tutorials covering the topics of brain and behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, motivation and emotion, cognition, intelligence, personality, and social psychology. |  | | Article discusses the first person and third person approaches to consciousness and cognition, the relationship between these two approaches, the coherence test, and why we think we are conscious. |  | | This site provides summaries of numerous theories found in behaviourism, cognition, and educational psychology. |
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http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/cognitive.shtml#Consciousness
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| | Marine Mammal Cognition |
 | | Several scientific studies show that these social animals with complex behaviors and a complex brain are able to use symbols, solve problems, etc... |  | | Cognitive sciences try to understand through a multi disciplinary approach how one organizes behavior and interacts with its environnement. |  | | Web site dedicated to the study of marine mammal's behavior and intelligence. |
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http://www.marine-mammal-cognition.de
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| | Social Cognition |
 | | "Over many years Social Cognition has provided a compelling complement to other leading journals in social and personality psychology. |  | | "This significant journal is one of the most prominent places where ideas in social psychology and cognitive psychology are brought together in truly creative ways." |  | | *The behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes. |
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http://www.guilford.com/periodicals/jnco.htm
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| | Distributed cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Distributed cognition it is a useful approach for (re)designing social aspects of cognition by putting emphasis on the individual and their environment. |  | | Using insights from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology of Vygotsky (cf activity theory) it emphasises the social aspects of cognition. |  | | Distributed cognition is a school of psychology developed in the 1990s by Edwin Hutchins. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_cognition
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| | cp93 |
 | | ADVANCED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CONCEPTIONS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL Cognitivism and the cognitive; the dominance of cognitive social psychology; testing judgment in action and interaction; non-cognitivist approaches to cognition: the ecological approach; the ethogenic approach; cognition as socially-distributed; social constructionist and contextualist approaches; social cognition revisited. |  | | R The Social Constructionist or Contextualist Approach Gergen, K.J. The social constructionist movement in modern psychology. |  | | M. Cognitive Social Psychology Eiser, J.R. Cognitive Social Psychology. |
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/j.m.m.good/cp93
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| | Social psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Social psychology involves the empirical study of social behavior and psychological processes associated with social cognition, social behavior, and groups. |  | | One theory is the Social identity theory of intergroup behavior. |  | | As the mind is the axis around which social behavior pivots, social psychologists tend to study the relationship between mind(s) and social behaviors. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology
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| | Social psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Social psychology involves the empirical study of social behavior and psychological processes associated with social cognition, social behavior, and groups. |  | | As the mind is the axis around which social behavior pivots, social psychologists tend to study the relationship between mind(s) and social behaviors. |  | | Social learning theory - in contrast to reinforcement theory, social learning theory attempts to explain all of human behavior by observation and mimicry. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology
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| | Bibliographies/Situated Cognition (1998) |
 | | Situated cognition proposes a radically different explanation of learning that conceives of it largely as a social phenomenon rather than a process occurring within the mind of the individual. |  | | Situated cognition suggests that knowledge is a relation between an individual and a social or physical situation. |  | | Cognitive apprenticeship is one example of situated learning in which learners participate in a community of practice that is developed through activity and social interaction, in ways similar to that in craft apprenticeships. |
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http://www.geocities.com/bibliographies/SituatedCognition199.html
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| | Shared Understanding |
 | | She sets the tone by looking at cognition as being pervaded by the social. |  | | Distributed cognition focusses on the interaction of people and artifacts, socially shared cognition focusses on social and cultural relationships including developmental issues, and distributed artificial intelligence focusses on the interactions of (usually) artificial agents with each other. |  | | In the study of shared understanding in its distributed sense, there are three chief sources of research coming from the overlapping areas of distributed cognition, socially shared cognition, and distributed artificial intelligence. |
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http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/WilliamHunt/qualifier.html
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| | Psychology - Open Encyclopedia |
 | | Social cognition is a common approach and involves a mostly cognitive and scientific approach to understanding social behaviour. |  | | Behaviourism was the dominant model in psychology for much of the early 20th century, largely due to the creation and successful application (not least of which in advertising) of conditioning theories as scientific models of human behaviour. |  | | Skinner it argued that psychology should be a science of behaviour, not the mind, and rejected the idea of internal mental states such as beliefs, desires or goals, believing all behaviour and learning to be a reaction to the environment. |
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http://open-encyclopedia.com/Psychology
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| | Virtual Environments in Maintenance Training |
 | | Distributed cognition is perhaps most different from a social constructivist perspective in that it also attends to the manners in which individuals interact with the material world in significant ways. |  | | As we have already asserted, the primary theoretical and methodological commitment of the distributed cognition framework is that it argues for shifting the designer's unit of analysis away from that of the individual engaged in cognition-in-the-mind to a consideration of individuals engaged in cognitive activity within social and material contexts (Salomon, 1995). |  | | Evidence from other theoretical perspectives that are at least somewhat sympathetic with the distributed cognition perspective-most notably the situated and ecological psychology frameworks-leads us to conclude that there are natural distributions of cognitive activity that occur when individuals or groups engage in intellectual activities in naturalistic settings. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/edtech/distcog.htm
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| | Educational Psychology Interactive: Social Cognition |
 | | Social cognition has its roots in social psychology which attempts "to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others" (Allport, 1985, p. |  | | Festinger's (1957) cognitive-dissonance theory, Bem's (1972) self-perception theory (see Greenwald, 1975), and Weiner's (1985) attribution theory are additional examples of how the perspective of social cognition has been applied to the study of the learning process. |  | | Allport, A. The historical background of social psychology. |
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http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/soccog/soccog.html
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| | Situated cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Situated cognition is a new movement in cognitive psychology which derives from pragmatism, Gibsonian ecological psychology, ethnomethodology, the theories of Vygotsky and the writings of Heidegger. |  | | Situated cognition emphasises studies of human behaviour that have 'ecological validity': that is, which take place in real situations (i.e. |  | | This is similar to the view of "situated activity" proposed by Lucy Suchman, "social context" proposed by Giuseppe Mantovani, and "Situated Learning" proposed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_cognition
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| | Social Psychology Textbooks |
 | | Stereotype Activation and Inhibition (Advances in Social Cognition, Vol. |  | | Augoustinos, M., & Walker, I. Social Cognition: An Integrated Introduction. |  | | Kunda, Z. Social Cognition: Making Sense of People. |
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http://www.socialpsychology.org/texts.htm
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| | Salon des Refuses - New Orleans - AAA November 2002 |
 | | Culture, in this view, is seen as a system of distributed cognition, and we are interested in exploring the various kinds of social contexts, behaviors, and cognitive structures which make up this system. |  | | New kinds of data and analyses on the social networks in which both shared and variable knowledge is distributed show that principles of behavior which shape the construction of social networks-while often not explicitly labeled-can be recovered from behavioral data and often are found to be linguistically or symbolically cued. |  | | Recent advances in three areas of cognitive anthropology have reawakened interest in cognitive anthropology and in the role that cognitive structures might play in wider considerations of culture and cultural theory. |
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http://hcs.ucla.edu/new-orleans-2002
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| | Research of the Emerging Focus BIOLOGY OF COGNITION |
 | | Recently we have begun accompanying studies on the perception of biological motion to serve social recognition, the abstraction of three-dimensional structure from motion, and the functional asymmetry of the pigeon brain. |  | | The main body of our scientific work is concerned with the mechanisms of higher-order perception and cognition in non-human animals. |  | | For almost a decade we have been studying the adaptive modification of behavior by means of both individual and social learning. |
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http://www.univie.ac.at/zoologie/theo/theoRes.htm
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| | Social Cognitive Theory Overview |
 | | Whereas strict behaviorism supports a direct and unidirectional pathway between stimulus and response, representing human behavior as a simple reaction to external stimuli, the SLT asserts that there is a mediator (human cognition) between stimulus and response, placing individual control over behavioral responses to stimuli. |  | | In his theory, Akers proposes that social behavior is shaped by a number of processes, including differential association, differential reinforcement, and cognitive definitions (Akers et.al., 1979; Akers 1985;1989;1996; Akers and Lee, 1996). |  | | Therefore, response consequences of a behavior are used to form expectations of behavioral outcomes. |
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http://www.med.usf.edu/~kmbrown/Social_Cognitive_Theory_Overview.htm
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 | | The reinstatement of the social in social cognition must come about through a focus on action and interaction not as contaminants in the path of the psychologist's understanding, but as more truly reflective of social cognition than the plans and concepts which are assumed to lurk behind them. |  | | Naturally, the decrease of social intentionality was accompanied by a decrease of parental responses to social behavior of the infant. |  | | But in the social environment, unacknowledged conditions and unintended consequences are entailed in the interplay of human actions and social structures (Giddens, 1976/1993). |
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http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/ecopsyc/UK95abs.html
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| | Theory & Psychology |
 | | My point is that cognitivism as a set of assumptions is very deeply layered in the discipline, and merely to take up new methods which lead outside the walls of the cognition lab does not in itself guarantee that these assumptions disappear. |  | | Cognitivism is criticized for failing to conceptualize practices in a way that recognizes their action orientation and co-construction, and to appreciate how they are given sense through people's categories, formulations and orientations. |  | | Activity (and in cognitivism this is still typically assumed to be the same thing as behaving) is treated as something secondary; it is treated as the output of the system. |
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http://www.psych.ucalgary.ca/thpsyc/VOLUMES.SI/2000/10.1.Potter.html
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| | Distributed Cognition by Yvonne Rogers and Mike Scaife |
 | | Distributed Cognition is a hybrid approach to studying all aspects of cognition, from a cognitive, social and organisational perspective. |  | | Through doing a Distributed Cognition analysis she was able to reveal various breakdowns that occurred in the work activities and the mechanisms by which the group had adapted their working practice to overcome them. |  | | A main point of departure from the traditional cognitive science framework is that, at the work setting level of analysis, the distributed cognition approach aims to show how intelligent processes in human activity transcend the boundaries of the individual actor. |
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http://www-sv.cict.fr/cotcos/pjs/TheoreticalApproaches/DistributedCog/DistCognitionpaperRogers.htm
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 | | Seyfarth, R.M. and Cheney, D.L. Social cognition in animals. |  | | Seyfarth, R.M. and Cheney, D.L. The evolution of social cognition in primates. |  | | Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M. and Smuts, B.B. Social relationships and social cognition in non-human primates. |
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http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~seyfarth/Publications
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| | HCI International 2003 - T25: HCI Themes for the Future: Social Creativity, Meta-Design, Context Awareness, and Distributed Cognition |
 | | T25: HCI Themes for the Future: Social Creativity, Meta-Design, Context Awareness, and Distributed Cognition |  | | HCII2003 > Program > T25: HCI Themes for the Future: Social Creativity, Meta-Design, Context Awareness, and Distributed Cognition |  | | HCI International 2003 - T25: HCI Themes for the Future: Social Creativity, Meta-Design, Context Awareness, and Distributed Cognition |
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http://www.hcii2003.gr/program/tutorials/t25.asp
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| | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: |
 | | Social cognition refers to the process by which we make sense of our world by interpreting events that happen to us and around us. |  | | Social psychology is the study of the role of social factors in human interactions. |  | | As with other questions in social psychology, it focuses on behavior between individuals and in groups. |
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http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/prism/Prism1/p1social.htm
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| | H-Soz-u-Kult / Tagungsberichte / Social Stereotypes and History |
 | | She conceded that attention to stereotypes can be useful after all to raise awareness of the constraints and necessities of history as a form of writing and cognition, and its role in the making of social stereotypes in modern society. |  | | He stated that the aim of the conference was to provide a broad overview of the different ways in which historians have used social stereotypes as a research tool in their work, and to discuss the usefulness and limitations of this concept. |  | | A more intense dialogue between historians and social psychologists, who, despite intense research in the field of social stereotyping, have so far shown little interest in the concept's temporal dimension, might therefore be necessary to make it more useful as an analytical tool. |
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http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=962
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Social learning theory |
 | | The first major theory of social learning, that of Julian B. Rotter, argued that cognition, in the form of expectations, is a crucial factor in social learning. |  | | The social learning theories of Albert Bandura emphasize the reciprocal relationship among cognition, behavior, and environment, for which Bandura coined the term reciprocal determinism. |  | | Social learning theory has its roots in the behaviorist notion of human behavior as being determined by learning, particularly as shaped by reinforcement in the form of rewards or punishment. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0003/ai_2699000323
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| | Social Order and Animal Consciousness |
 | | In many animal social structures this deliberate self-modifcation of behavior and sense of place indicates an awareness of self. |  | | Within these social bonds and interactions there exists an order which may suggest the consciousness of each individual of their function or position within their given social structure. |  | | Many researchers agree that consciousness is more likely in highly social animals such as chimps and dolphins, who must be able to see themselves in relation to others in their groups in order to get along. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/pgaughen.html
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| | Intentional relations and social understanding |
 | | Research in social cognition has revealed a number of instances of such differences and some of these instances provide clear support for the idea that first and third person information tend to focus on different aspects of the intentional relation. |  | | These behaviors, such as joint attention and social referencing, are ones in which a particular intentional relation is shared with another; at this stage, the infant can, therefore, be said to be operating at level 2 of our framework. |  | | In: Social referencing and the social construction of reality in infancy, ed. |
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http://jbarresi.psychology.dal.ca/Papers/bbs.barresi.html
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