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Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 7 facts
claimPsychedelic use could have created a feedback loop in ancient hominins by increasing social cognition and symbolic behavior, which in turn selected for further increases in those capacities by enriching the social and semiotic environment.
referencePokorny et al. (2017) published 'Effect of psilocybin on empathy and moral decision-making' in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, investigating the impact of the psychedelic compound psilocybin on social cognition.
claimPsilocybin modulates social cognition by increasing empathy for positive emotions and reducing the recognition and processing of negative emotional faces, which facilitates social approach behaviors.
claimChanges in social cognition are linked to decreases in emotional reactivity, supported by shifts in hormonal and subcortical profiles such as amygdala reactivity.
claimThe integration of psilocybin into ancient diet, communal practice, and proto-religious activity could have sustained feedback loops where increases in social cognition and symbolic behavior selected for further increases in those capacities.
claimThe interpersonal and prosocial effects of psychedelics may have mediated the expansion of social bonding mechanisms such as laughter, singing, dancing, storytelling, and religion, which accelerated the spread of key biological components of social cognition and religiosity in the human lineage.
referencePreller and Vollenweider (2019) published 'Modulation of social cognition via hallucinogens and entactogens' in Frontiers in Psychiatry, reviewing how these substances affect social processing.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 4 facts
claimThe mental expertise to cultivate empathic behavior and positive emotion for the suffering of others involves a network of prosociality and social cognition.
claimSocial cognition is defined as the ability to understand the emotions, intentions, and beliefs of others.
referenceFrith and Frith (2012) reviewed the mechanisms of social cognition in the article 'Mechanisms of social cognition' published in the Annual Review of Psychology.
claimEmpathic forms of behavior, including empathy, sympathy, and altruism, are implicated in conceptual models and theories about social cognition, experience sharing, and prosocial behavior, according to Hein and Singer (2008), Eisenberg et al. (2010), and Zaki and Ochsner (2012).
A Survey of Incorporating Psychological Theories in LLMs - arXiv arxiv.org 2 facts
referenceXuan Liu, Jie Zhang, Haoyang Shang, Song Guo, Chengxu Yang, and Quanyan Zhu authored 'Exploring prosocial irrationality for llm agents: A social cognition view', published as an arXiv preprint in 2024.
claimDual-process theory, a social cognition framework, distinguishes between fast (System 1) and slow (System 2) reasoning processes.
The Role of Play in Cognitive and Emotional Development longdom.org 1 fact
claimRole-playing games strengthen the neural pathways associated with social cognition, which helps children become more understanding, compassionate, and socially competent adults.
The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences - Frontiers frontiersin.org Sep 27, 2017 1 fact
referenceUddin et al. published 'The self and social cognition: the role of cortical midline structures and mirror neurons' in Trends in Cognitive Sciences in 2007 (Trends Cogn. Sci. 11, 153–157).
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimEvolutionary social psychology has contributed findings to traditional social psychology topics such as person perception, social cognition, attitudes, altruism, emotions, group dynamics, leadership, motivation, prejudice, intergroup relations, and cross-cultural differences.
The Influence of Behavioral Biases on Investment Decisions jmsr-online.com Jul 8, 2025 1 fact
claimThe study 'The Influence of Behavioral Biases on Investment Decisions' advances the understanding of how investors operate in modern marketplaces by integrating behavioral biases with knowledge-hiding behavior and social cognition.
Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca Jun 14, 2024 1 fact
accountThe UQÀM Cognitive Science Institute hosted summer schools on various topics including Categorization (2003), Social Cognition (2008), Origin of Language (2010), Origin and Function of Consciousness (2012), Web Science and the Mind (2014), Reasoning (2016), The Other Minds Problem: Animal Sentience and Cognition (2018), and Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change (2021).