Affiliation:
1. University of Southern Maine, USA
Abstract
Research from psycholinguistics, developmental social-cognition, and neuroscience, together with key insights from clinical psychology, are used to frame the discussion of metacognitive language as an intra- and interpersonal form of self-regulation, social discourse, and behavior. The relevance of metacognition for social intuition theory (SIT) is profound because features of social intuition reflect metacognitive resilience and deep vulnerabilities that are part of our evolution and natural history. Language as discourse and as internal self-regulation are analysed within SIT to describe processes behind how we communicate with one another, and ourselves, both fast and slow.