Advances in social cognition research / Serena R. Nasato, editor.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 26, 2014).

Includes index.

References.

ADVANCES IN SOCIAL COGNITION RESEARCH; ADVANCES IN SOCIAL COGNITION RESEARCH; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Sex Differences in Social Cognition Responses Are Associated with Peer Network Structures and Ethnic Backgrounds; Abstract; Introduction; The Evolution of Nonverbal Expressive Behaviors; Ethnic Differences in Facial Expression Processing; Current Study; Study 1; Methods; Subjects and Procedure; Facial Judgment Task; Peer Networks; Data Analyses; Results; Sex Differences in Social Functioning and Facial Impressions.

Moderators of the Relations between Biological Sex and Facial ImpressionsStudy 1 Discussion; Study 2; Methods; Subjects and Procedure; Facial Stimuli; Peer Networks; Data Analyses; Results; Sex Differences and Ethnic Differences in Social Functioning and Facial Impressions; Social Moderators of the Relations between Biological Sex and Facial Impressions; Study 2 Discussion; General Discussion; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Social Cognition, Everyday Problems and Working Capacity in Persons with Schizophrenia: Outcomes from the Real World.

NHS, Unit of Psychiatry of Portogruaro, Health Trust n. 10Veneto Orientale; Abstract; Introduction: The Origin and the Development; of Social Cognition Abilities in Humans; How the Social Cognition Paradigm; became Adapted to Severe Mental; Disorders; A Brief Overview of Non-Pharmacological Rehabilitation Treatments for the Severe Mental Disorders; The Peculiar Italian Approach to Psychosocial Rehabilitation; The Portogruaro Mental Health Service: Psychiatric Rehabilitation in the Real World; The Administrative Organization and the Mental Health Facilities.

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Pathways in Portogruaro Mental Health ServiceSocial Cognition and Problem-Solving As Predictors of Working Capacity in Schizophrenia; Methods; Participants; Clinical, Neuropsychological and Outcome Assessment; Basic Neuropsychological Assessment; Social Cognition Assessment; Psychopathological and Functional Outcome Measure; Statistical Analysis; Results; Group Differences; Correlations in the Participants' Group; Logistic Regression Analysis; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Reading about Persons: The Mental Representation of Person Descriptions; Abstract.

IntroductionRepresentation of Person Information in Social Cognition and in Text Comprehension Research; Implications for Processing and Organization; of Person Descriptions; The Organization of Person Information; Encoding Assumption; Retrieval Assumption; Overview of the Experiments; Experiment 1; Method; Results and Discussion; Experiment 2; Method; Results and Discussion; Experiment 3; Method; Results and Discussion; Experiment 4; Method; Results and Discussion; General Discussion; Appendix; Example Passages from the Person Descriptions; Listwise Descriptions; Text Descriptions.

Research on social cognition is largely comprised of self-reported judgments and impressions about internal and external information. Both verbal and nonverbal behaviors are subject to stylistic biases in how people express themselves, often confounding the ability to reliably measure (non-communicative) cognitive processes and mechanisms. This book begins by discussing the gender differences and ethnicity-related differences in communicative styles and their potential to influence basic findings in social psychological studies. It then continues to discuss the social cognition, everyday probl.

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