Social Context and Cognitive Performance

Name: Social Context and Cognitive Performance
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Offers theoretical and empirical arguments for the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. Phenomena such as social facilitation and social loafing are also examined. > \nBased on twenty years of research on the social regulation of academic performances, this book offers theoretical and empirical arguments in favour of the inclusion of the social dimension of human beings as essential for their cognitive activities. \nWe all engage in social interactions, compare ourselves with other people, belong to social groups, and are the object of a myriad of categorisations. Not only do such social experiences affect cognition, but they actually determine its form and its content. Several experiments indeed reveal that cognitive performance depends on the relationship between the individual and the social context in which cognition takes place. And this relationship is not forged directly by features of the situation, but rather by pet