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Fundamental to sociality and the human experience is having an individual identity connected to others and playing out in culturally specific ways. Social cognition is a grounded and embodied expression of integration and requires adopting the biological, psychological, and social characteristics of another or of a group. This becoming function involves social integration, competence, intentional attunement, development of shared space, and recognition of the like-me features in others. Components of integration, like social cohesion, mediation, empathy, and compassion, are heterarchically organized, interdependent, and interpenetrating, with aspects in higher-order brain structures, but modulated and influenced by lower-level representations. These cognitive science underpinnings offer a unifying mechanism for inferring and experiencing what others experience through simulating a shared self-other representation.
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Pineda, J.A. (2022). Cognitive Science Underpinnings. In: The Social Impulse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08439-3_11
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