Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Social life constantly requires us to decipher information about others into inferences about their emotional states: for example, we have to reason about what makes our romantic partners happy (a surprise gift?) or angry (not doing one’s chores?), and what they would do in those emotional states, in order to plan our upcoming interactions. Such affective cognition, or our ability to reason about others ’ emotions, scaffolds everything from cooperation to the maintenance of social relationships. Affective cognition lies in the intersec-tion of two foundational social cognitive topics, Theory of Mind (ToM; the ability to reason about others ’ mental states) and Empathy (the ability to feel and understand others ’ emo-tions). Although the past decade has seen much progress in understanding ToM and empathy using neuroscience (Koster-
Authors: Desmond C. Ong, Jamil Zaki, Noah D. Goodman
Institution: Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2396197136