Social Cognition
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- 1 January 2013
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- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
Life depends on social cognition, and social cognition depends on life. We are social beings who require other humans, in order to survive and thrive (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Fiske, in press). Our belonging with other people means we strive to understand them and share our understandings of reality. We strive also to predict and control at least some contingencies between what we do and what we get from other people. Together with basic needs to sustain self-esteem and social trust, these motives underlie our obsession with making sense of other people (Fiske & Taylor, 2013). People – ourselves and others – make challenging puzzles because people originate actions, unlike other complex objects and gadgets, so we ...Keywords
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