social perception

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Carvalho, E. M. (2020).  Social Affordance. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. , Cham: Springer Abstractsocial-affordance.pdf

A short entry on Social Affordances. Social affordances are possibilities for social interaction or possibilities for action that are shaped by social practices and norms.

Carvalho, E. (2019).  Socially Extending the Mind Through Social Affordances. Automata's Inner Movie: Science and Philosophy of Mind. , Delaware: Vernon Press Abstractcarvalho, E. Socially_extending_the_mind_through_social_affordances.pdf

The extended mind thesis claims that at least some cognitive processes extend beyond the organism’s brain in that they are constituted by the organism’s actions on its surrounding environment. A more radical move would be to claim that social actions performed by the organism could at least constitute some of its mental processes. This can be called the socially extended mind thesis. Based on the notion of affordance as developed in the ecological psychology tradition, I defend the view that perception extends to the environment. Then I will expand the notion of affordance to encompass social affordances. Thus, perception can in some situations also be socially extended.