Affiliation:
1. Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
Abstract
Abstract
In the first edition of this handbook, Carlston and Schneid analyzed the PsycInfo database to assess trends in publications on social cognition. This chapter reports a similar effort, analyzing publications up to and including the first two years of the 2020s. Among other things, these analyses indicate that social cognition is mentioned in a smaller percentage of peer-reviewed social psychology articles in recent years than in the 2000s, breaking a multidecade trend upward. Several explanations are proposed, including the possibility that social cognition, like other areas of social psychology, has followed a natural pattern of rising to, and then falling from, prominence. Other possibilities are that social cognition and its principles have become so ubiquitous that they often aren’t explicitly labeled as such and that the field has morphed into something that is barely recognizable as “your grandfather’s social cognition.”
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