Cognition in a Social Context: A Social-Interactionist Approach to Emergent Phenomena
Cognition in a Social Context: A Social-Interactionist Approach to Emergent Phenomena
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DOI：
10.1177/0963721418769898
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发表时间：
2018-10-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Coman, Alin
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作者：
Vlasceanu, Madalina;Enz, Karalyn;Coman, Alin
集体记忆、情感和信仰的形成是人类社会的一个基本特征。这些新出现的结果被认为是个体之间交流互动的动态系统的结果。但是，尽管最近对集体现象进行了心理学研究，但并不存在探索集体现象形成过程的程序性框架。在这里，我们提出了一种社会互动主义的方法，将认知心理学和社会心理学联系起来，以阐明微观层面的认知现象如何产生大规模的社会结果。它包括首先确定认知现象的边界条件，然后研究认知如何受到其表现的社会语境的影响，最后研究二元水平的影响如何在社会网络中传播。这种方法有可能：(A)阐明公认的认知现象的大规模后果；(B)促成心理学和其他社会科学之间的跨学科对话；(C)与现有方法相比，对公共政策更具相关性。
The formation of collective memories, emotions, and beliefs is a fundamental characteristic of human communities. These emergent outcomes are thought to be the result of a dynamical system of communicative interactions among individuals. But despite recent psychological research on collective phenomena, no programmatic framework to explore the processes involved in their formation exists. Here, we propose a social-interactionist approach that bridges cognitive and social psychology to illuminate how microlevel cognitive phenomena give rise to large-scale social outcomes. It involves first establishing the boundary conditions of cognitive phenomena, then investigating how cognition is influenced by the social context in which it is manifested, and finally studying how dyadic-level influences propagate in social networks. This approach has the potential to (a) illuminate the large-scale consequences of well-established cognitive phenomena, (b) lead to interdisciplinary dialogues between psychology and the other social sciences, and (c) be more relevant for public policy than existing approaches.