Scripts and Social Cognition

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ID22109382
AuthorsGen Eickers (0000-0001-5980-0019, University of Bayreuth, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume10
Issue0
Publication date2024-02-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueErgo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2330-4014 • E-ISSN: 2330-4014
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Library (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3998/ergo.5191
OpenAlexW4392296839
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited34

To explain how social cognition normally serves us in real life, we need to ask which factors contribute to specific social interactions. Recent accounts, and mostly pluralistic models, have started incorporating contextual and social factors in explanations of social cognition. In this paper, I further motivate the importance of contextual and identity factors for social cognition. This paper presents scripts as an alternative resource in social cognition that can account for contextual and identity factors. Scripts are normative and context-sensitive knowledge structures that describe behavior in terms of corresponding events, situations, social roles, individuals, or mental state types in a way that guides action. The script approach presented here builds on recent accounts of social cognition but points out important differences and possible advantages it has over them: for example, the script approach focuses even more strongly on context and identity

Cognition · Programming language · Scripting language · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology

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