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Social Perception Deficit as a Factor of Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Brief Proposal for a Definition

Disturbances in social cognition are a core feature of schizophrenia. While most research in the field has focused on emotion perception, social knowledge, theory of mind, and attribution styles, the domain of social perception has received little specific attention. In this paper, we suggest that t...

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Autores principales: Cavieres, Álvaro, López-Silva, Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9131014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35645890
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805795
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description Disturbances in social cognition are a core feature of schizophrenia. While most research in the field has focused on emotion perception, social knowledge, theory of mind, and attribution styles, the domain of social perception has received little specific attention. In this paper, we suggest that this issue can be explained by the lack of a precise and unitary definition of the concept, this leads to the existence of different competing uses of the concept and their conflation with other domains of social cognition. Relying on resources coming from the ecological approach to psychology and the phenomenological tradition in psychiatry, we propose that the concept of Social Perception should be used to refer to low-level pre-reflective processes underlying the awareness of interpersonal interactions with and between others. Clinical data suggests that people with schizophrenia have problems perceiving social situations as opportunities for social engagement, so, in order to fulfil this explanatory need, we propose that the term should be used to capture this important—yet neglected—domain of social cognition. We conclude with the discussion of some future directions for research derived from our proposal.
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spelling pubmed-91310142022-05-26 Social Perception Deficit as a Factor of Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Brief Proposal for a Definition Cavieres, Álvaro López-Silva, Pablo Front Psychol Psychology Disturbances in social cognition are a core feature of schizophrenia. While most research in the field has focused on emotion perception, social knowledge, theory of mind, and attribution styles, the domain of social perception has received little specific attention. In this paper, we suggest that this issue can be explained by the lack of a precise and unitary definition of the concept, this leads to the existence of different competing uses of the concept and their conflation with other domains of social cognition. Relying on resources coming from the ecological approach to psychology and the phenomenological tradition in psychiatry, we propose that the concept of Social Perception should be used to refer to low-level pre-reflective processes underlying the awareness of interpersonal interactions with and between others. Clinical data suggests that people with schizophrenia have problems perceiving social situations as opportunities for social engagement, so, in order to fulfil this explanatory need, we propose that the term should be used to capture this important—yet neglected—domain of social cognition. We conclude with the discussion of some future directions for research derived from our proposal. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9131014/ /pubmed/35645890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805795 Text en Copyright © 2022 Cavieres and López-Silva. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Social Perception Deficit as a Factor of Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Brief Proposal for a Definition
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9131014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35645890
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805795
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