The role of social cognition in emotion
Abstract
Although recent research has shown that social cognition and emotion engage overlapping regions of the brain, few accounts of this overlap have been offered. What systems might be commonly or distinctively involved in each? The close functional relationship between social cognition and emotion might be understood in terms of a central role for mental state attribution in the understanding, learning and regulation of emotion. In each of these cases, mental state attributions might be supported by either stimulus-driven or more reflective processes.
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The dmPFC is hypothesized to support abstracting affective meaning of stimuli or the processes of self-reflecting and identifying one's own affective reactions to stimuli.
“Finally, the dmPFC is hypothesized to support abstracting affective meaning of stimuli or the processes of self-reflecting and identifying one’s own affective reactions to stimuli [121, 126–130].”
From Prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and threat processing: implications for PTSD (2022) · cites this paper as [130]
Both shared representations (SRs) and mental state attributions (MSAs) are involved in processing information about targets' internal states.
“These 2 lines of research converge to suggest that both SRs and MSAs are involved in processing information about targets' internal states (14, 19, 20).”
From The neural bases of empathic accuracy (2009) · cites this paper as [20]
Recent theories of social cognition suggest that cortical areas related to MSA and mirror neuron system structures related to SRs should both be engaged when perceivers make inferences about target states.
“Recent theories of social cognition recognize this likelihood and suggest that cortical areas related to MSA and mirror neuron system structures related to SRs should both be engaged when perceivers make inferences about target states (20, 28, 29).”
From The neural bases of empathic accuracy (2009) · cites this paper as [20]
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- Authors
- Olsson, A., & Ochsner, K. N.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Olsson, Andreas
- Ochsner, Kevin N.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-02
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 65-71
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2119012506
- Semantic Scholar
- bc013db746b9df2658664d1b91b5fd9b3f041c1e
- Cited by
- 289
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 4.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076137, MH076137)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA022541, DA-022541)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- social cognition, emotions, mental state attribution, emotion regulation, emotional learning, emotional understanding, neural overlap, reflective processing
- MeSH terms
- Affect, Cognition, Humans, Functional Laterality, Learning, Nerve Net, Social Perception
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