Abstract

OCAMPO CARDONA, Mónica María. Social psychology, A cognitive discipline?. rev. psicol. univ. antioquia [online]. 2012, vol.4, n.2, pp.115-124. ISSN 2145-4892.

This paper reviews the notion of subject and society in cognitive science and social psychology to analyze the approaches and / or distancing of the different aspects. Resumption theories of Gardner, Bruner, Miller, in cognitive science and proposed Ibañez, Moscovici, Zajonc, among others, in social psychology. In relation to this review questions the social psychology whether or not to be an independent discipline or a discipline belonging to the spectrum of cognitive science. The latter would lead to what one might call the emergence of a new branch of psychology namely cognitive and social psychology that can be seen as a consequence and / or outcome of two important events, on the one hand, the crisis of social psychology and on the other hand, the cognitive revolution, two changes occurred in mid-twentieth century.

Keywords : Subject; Society; Social psychology; Cognitive science; Cognitive social psychology.

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