The four A's of life transition effects: attention, accessibility, adaptation, and adjustment

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Phases in social life, involving shifts in regulatory pressures and informational exposure, have an influence on cognition and motivation. Life transition effects operate through changes in the four A's of attention, accessibility, adaptation, and adjustment with regard to the social processes. Life transitions, with their cognitive effects, form one of the ways through which social processes impinge on the formation of meaning. Studies have been conducted concerning how becoming a parent affects attention and knowledge accessibility, how entering junior high school affects adaptation, and how entering high school affects adjustment.

Attention (Psychology), Adaptability (Psychology), Adjustment (Psychology), Life change events, Attention

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Impact of anticipated interaction on information acquisition

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Anticipated interaction has different cognitive repercussions, depending on whether one expects to belong to a majority or minority as well as on the size of the opposing group. Members of minority factions who expect to interact with the majority show increased overall cognitive activities compared to the majority factions who expect interaction with a minority. For both minorities and majorities, a larger anticipated opposing group stimulates more bias toward information supporting one's own position. The control group, without information about factions, acts like a four-person majority facing a two-person minority.

Debates and debating, Debates, Interpersonal relations, Human information processing, Expectation (Psychology), Expectations, Social interaction

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Social determinants of cognition

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Social determinants of cognition in terms of content and processes are the focus of several studies in the field of social cognition as a social science, in contrast to the usual view of social cognition as a cognitive science. Social motives and majority and minority effects in group situations play a substantial role in cognitive activity. The view of cognition as an individual mental process is by itself open to challenge from the view of its being a collaborative and shared process.

Research, Social perception, Sociological research

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