Like the field of social cognition but with a hip fresh bunch of reinterpretations.
If our brains got big because we needed to be social then is our intelligence intrinsically social? If so, why are we so bad at it? Is consciousness itself intrinsically social? Are non social intelligences are a problem for consciousness?
Anthropomorphising yourself
Is the Internal Family Systems Model of psychotherapy actually useful? In this system people are encouraged to think of themselves as a family of little sub-people. What would it say about us if this works?.
Moral cognition
I like to tall that moral wetware.
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Social exchange reasoning
Each card has a number on one side and a patch of color on the other. Which card or cards must be turned over to test the idea that if a card shows an even number on one face, then its opposite face is red?
The Wason selection task is a logic puzzle on cards. TODO: discuss significance of this for social reasoning, e.g. social exchange theory (Cosmides and Tooby 1992; Sperber and Girotto 2002).
Each card has an age on one side and a drink on the other. Which card(s) must be turned over to test the idea that if you are drinking alcohol, then you must be over 18?
See also Jeffrey K. Bye, Psychology Classics: Wason Selection Task.
Over at the rhetoric notebook I quoted Henry Farrell summarising some social brain stuff: