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Ko Kuwabara
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Journal Article
Mason M. F., Magee J. C., Kuwabara K., Nind L. (2010). Specialization in Relational Reasoning The Efficiency, Accuracy, and Neural Substrates of Social versus Nonsocial Inferences Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(4)
Although deduction can be applied both to associations between nonsocial objects and to social relationships among people, the authors hypothesize that social targets elicit specialized cognitive mechanisms that facilitate inferences about social relations. Consistent with this view, in Experiments 1a and 1b the authors show that participants are more efficient and more accurate at inferring social relations compared to nonsocial relations.