Editing Social cognition (section)

==History==
Social cognition came to prominence with the rise of [[cognitive psychology]] in the late 1960s and early 1970s and is now the dominant model and approach in mainstream [[social psychology]].<ref name=Husain>{{cite book|title= Social Psychology|last=Husain |first=A. |isbn=9788131760000 |publisher=[[Pearson Education|Pearson Education India]]|chapter=Chapter 5: Social Perception and Cognition |year=2012}}</ref> Common to social cognition theories is the idea that information is represented in the brain as "[[mentalism (psychology)|cognitive elements]]" such as [[schema (psychology)|schemas]], [[attribution theory|attributions]], or [[stereotype]]s. A focus on how these cognitive elements are processed is often employed. Social cognition therefore applies and extends many themes, theories, and paradigms from cognitive psychology that can be identified in [[cognitive bias|reasoning]] ([[representativeness heuristic]], [[base rate fallacy]] and [[confirmation bias]]), [[attention]] ([[automaticity]] and [[priming (psychology)|priming]]) and [[memory]] (schemas, [[primacy effect|primacy and recency]]). It is likely that social psychology has always had a more [[cognitive]] than general psychology approach, as it traditionally discussed internal mental states such as [[belief]]s and desires when mainstream psychology was dominated by [[behaviorism]].<ref name="Fiske">{{cite book|last=Fiske|first=S.T.|author2=Taylor, S.E. |title=Social Cognition |url=https://archive.org/details/socialcognition0002fisk|url-access=registration|isbn=978-0-07-100910-2|publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]], Inc.|year=1991}}</ref>

It has been suggested that other disciplines in social psychology such as [[social identity theory]] and [[social representations]] may be seeking to explain largely the same phenomena as social cognition, and that these different disciplines might be merged into a "coherent integrated whole".<ref>{{cite book|last=Augustinos|first=M. |author2=Walker, I. |author3=Donaghue, N.|title=Social Cognition an Integrated Introduction|isbn=978-0-7619-4218-4|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] Ltd|year=2006|location=London}}</ref> A parallel paradigm has arisen in the study of action, termed [[motor cognition]], which is concerned with understanding the representation of action and the associated process.