SEED 7507 FA24 S2 Microlab Social Cognition by Linda Noble

Social Cognition - JEC

2024-09-10 22:59:52 UTC

"Social cognition is very important because it directly concerns our everyday lives, and not just everyday lives, but I mean social life in general. Social cognition is not relevant simpler to how I talk to you at this moment, how I am responding to your micro expression as I talk to you."

Meet the Researcher - DKR

2024-09-10 23:02:43 UTC

"dehumanization... it seems like we're all capable of it depending on the situation"

"the research helps us understand the biological underpinnings of the phenomenon"

Meet the Researcher - JEC

2024-09-10 23:03:24 UTC

How people perceive other people (especially how they perceive other peoples minds).

amandapereztv — 2024-09-10 23:05:00 UTC

Social Cognition - "Cognitive psychologists were very interested in memory attention and perception. And, for example, you can show that how well you perceive something depends on whether you are attending to it comes out of the blue. You can ask what is it that people attend to when they’re confronted with the complicated scenes." AP, EP, DM

Social Cognition

2024-09-10 23:05:45 UTC

"There’re various questions that we study in social cognition which are still no really answered. So, one question is: is social cognition something special? Are the ways that we interact with other people different from the ways that we interact with physical objects in the world? Are the ways that we attend to people different from the way we attend to trees or animals or something like that?"

Social Cognition - MSK

2024-09-10 23:05:49 UTC

Social cognition is not relevant simpler to how I talk to you at this moment, how I am responding to your micro expression as I talk to you. But also there is a much larger scale: how do groups interact, how do societies work.

Meet the Researcher - JEC

2024-09-10 23:06:20 UTC

We are all capable of it (dehumanization) depending on the situation and goal.

Social Cognition - ODYK

2024-09-10 23:07:06 UTC

"[a researcher] has managed to produce computerized versions of faces" - to study emotion, from a video 7 years ago. We were curious how much the technology for generating faces has progressed in the recent years especially with AI advances, and whether AI faces are able to convey emotion as effectively as real faces. We talked about how it's pretty hard nowadays to look at a photo of a person's face and tell if it was AI or real.

Meet the Researcher -ABM

2024-09-10 23:07:17 UTC

"Everyone is capable of dehumanization"

MB & QW

2024-09-10 23:07:50 UTC

"Across cultures, there are five emotions everyone can recognize: happiness, sadness, disgust, surprise..." "Everyone is capable of dehumanization". "When you see fear, you feel fear"

Lasana Harris - “Everyone is capable of dehumanizing someone else.” AP, DM, EP

amandapereztv — 2024-09-10 23:08:56 UTC

Dr. Lasana Harris - MSK

2024-09-10 23:09:21 UTC

"Everybody is capable of dehumanizing someone else... depending on the situation."

Dr. Lasana Harris

2024-09-10 23:09:57 UTC

"One of the things we found is that we are all capable of dehumanizing somebody else."

Social Cognition - DKR

2024-09-10 23:09:57 UTC

"So we talk about memory and storage. We talk about perception and templates."

"One important aspect of the face is how trustworthy it is. You can show here is that you can easily generate a face that looks trustworthy and a face that looks untrustworthy."

Social cognition - ABM

2024-09-10 23:10:47 UTC

Dr. Lasana Harris - MSK

2024-09-10 23:12:08 UTC

its not just those people who are hidden psychopaths who can commit these acts

Social Cognition- CJA

2024-09-10 23:12:29 UTC

"One of the things that was shown in social cognition was that the first thing we attend to is faces. If there is a face in the picture, that’s what we look at first"

"Are the ways that we interact with other people different from the ways that we interact with physical objects in the world? Are the ways that we attend to people different from the way we attend to trees or animals or something like that?"

Meet the researcher - ODYK

2024-09-10 23:13:32 UTC

studying dehumanization can help us create policies in healthcare and politics - how would knowing about this theoretical difference translate to real world policies? We also talked about the implicit bias test and differences in maternal mortality rates between mothers of different races in the U.S.

Dr. Lasana Harris-DDDAP

2024-09-10 23:14:15 UTC

"Dehumanization could have a positive effect"

Dr. Harris - MSK

2024-09-10 23:14:18 UTC

Don't remember exactly but something like "we can use this knowledge to develop policy"

DP, RA, CQ

2024-09-10 23:14:22 UTC

“You can ask people what they attend to when confronted with a complicated scene one of things shown by social cognition is that we look at the first is the face.”

“Five different emotions are e can recognize across cultures happiness, surprise, sadness and disgust and one other.”

“In the right situation we are all capable of genocide.”

"The key difference between cognitive psychology and behaviorism was that cognitive psychologists wanted to know what was happening in your mind, not just looking at behaviour. " EP, AP, DM

amandapereztv — 2024-09-10 23:17:14 UTC

Meet the Researcher- CJA

2024-09-10 23:18:14 UTC

"Dehumanization isn’t just responsible for negative things alone… it can also lead to positive outcomes as well”

"Everyone is capable of dehumanizing"

DP, RA, CQ

2024-09-10 23:20:10 UTC

"If there's a face in the picture that's what we look at first."

Notes / Analysis - DKR

raymondcheung — 2024-09-10 23:22:04 UTC

The level of trustworthiness can be based on physical attributes such as facial expressions. However, this can lead to biases and prejudice. One can look trustworthy, but then through actions not be a dependable, reliable, or consistent person. Focusing on the external physical attributes, this can lead to unnecessary discrimination and dehumanizing certain people.

It was an interesting remark to hear that one can be dehumanizing without executing dehumanization on a grand scale. One can still dehumanize another in small, subtle ways with the same immense effect.

These are socially constructed things that we perpetuate and tell each other through several generations in popular culture. For example, witches have pointy noses.

Group 3 - ZMDJ

2025-09-02 23:53:22 UTC

“One important aspect of the face is how trustworthy it is. You can show here is that you can easily generate a face that looks trustworthy and a face that looks untrustworthy. Everybody would agree, that this face looks trustworthy and this face looks untrustworthy. But this almost has nothing to do with reality. Someone with the face like this is not necessarily actually trustworthy. It’s just what we have this social consensus about what a trustworthy face is.”

Group 3 - ZMDJ

2025-09-02 23:55:14 UTC

“And it turned out that in this research that there are actually two kinds of smile: a genuine smile and something that is known as a Duchenne smile which refers to the particular muscles involved, which is a sort of a fake smile.”

Group 3- ZMDJ

2025-09-02 23:59:40 UTC

“There’re various questions that we study in social cognition which are still no really answered. So, one question is: is social cognition something special? Are the ways that we interact with other people different from the ways that we interact with physical objects in the world?”