Alignment in social interactions |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom;2. Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom;3. Munich Centre for Neuroscience, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany;4. The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, United Kingdom;1. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College, Bengaluru, India;2. Fortis Hospital, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College, Bengaluru, India;3. Department of Radio Diagnosis, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Medical College, Bengaluru, India;1. Department of Philosophy, King''s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK;2. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK;3. Calleva Research Centre for Evolution and Human Sciences, Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AU, UK;4. Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark;5. All Souls College, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AL, UK;6. Wellcome Trust Centre for NeuroImaging at UCL, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK;1. Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Oktober 6 utca 7, 1051 Budapest, Hungary;2. Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Institut d’Etudes Cognitives, Inserm, U960, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC), F-75005 Paris, France;1. Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, via Festa del Perdono 7, I-20122 Milano, Italy;2. Department of Psychology, University of Turin, via Po 14, I-10123 Milano, Italy;3. Department of Biomedical Technology, IRCCS Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Milan, Italy;4. Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK;5. Center for the Study of Social Action, University of Milan, Italy;1. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Helgonabacken 12, 221 00 Lund, Sweden;2. Center for Semiotics, Department for Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 2, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark;3. The Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | According to the prevailing paradigm in social-cognitive neuroscience, the mental states of individuals become shared when they adapt to each other in the pursuit of a shared goal. We challenge this view by proposing an alternative approach to the cognitive foundations of social interactions. The central claim of this paper is that social cognition concerns the graded and dynamic process of alignment of individual minds, even in the absence of a shared goal. When individuals reciprocally exchange information about each other's minds processes of alignment unfold over time and across space, creating a social interaction. Not all cases of joint action involve such reciprocal exchange of information. To understand the nature of social interactions, then, we propose that attention should be focused on the manner in which people align words and thoughts, bodily postures and movements, in order to take one another into account and to make full use of socially relevant information. |
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