Governance
ISCON is governed by a steering committee that currently consists of:
Jacqueline Chen, University of Utah (President)
Fiery Cushman, Harvard University
Eric Hehman, McGill University
Lisa Libby, Ohio State University
Chadly Stern, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lotte van Dillen, Leiden University
Journal
Social Cognition is the official journal of ISCON, published by Guilford.
What is social cognition?
Social cognition is not a content area, but rather is an approach to understanding social psychology. It is a level of analysis that aims to understand social psychological phenomena by investigating the cognitive processes that underlie them. The major concerns of the approach are the processes involved in the perception, judgment, and memory of social stimuli; the effects of social and affective factors on information processing; and the behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes. This level of analysis may be applied to any content area within social psychology, including research on intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup processes.
History
The International Social Cognition Network was formed in 2003 as a joint enterprise between the European Social Cognition Network and the Person Memory Interest Group to act as an umbrella society to advance the international study of social cognition. Among the objectives of ISCON are to advance the understanding of social cognition by encouraging research and the preparation of papers and reports, holding meetings for the presentation of scientific papers, sponsoring or issuing publications containing scientific papers and other relevant material, establishing professional honors and awards to recognize excellence in social cognition research, and cooperating with other scientific and professional societies.