Beyond the dyad: Capturing the true complexity of social cognition - second round

To truly understand the human mind, we need to embrace the diversity and complexity of human social interactions. However, our current understanding is vastly restricted to interactions between just two people, and within Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) cultures. This project will break from tradition by identifying the mechanisms we use when faced with a group of diverse co-actors with multiple different, interacting relationships, as is often the case in real-life. We will use ‘task co-representation’ as a test case, providing a springboard for research on other social cognitive mechanisms to capture the true complexity of human sociality.