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What is the main difference between social cognition and social perception?

Social cognition is about applying availability heuristics whereas social perception is about applying the representativeness heuristic.

Social cognition refers to identifying and utilising social cues to make judgements about social roles, relationships, rules, context, or the characteristics (e.g. trustworthiness) of others whereas social perception consists of the combination of mental processes that are specifically attuned to perceiving, understanding and interacting with other people.

Social cognition is about applying representativeness heuristics whereas social perception is about applying the availability heuristic.

Social cognition consists of the combination of mental processes that are specifically attuned to perceiving, understanding and interacting with other people, whereas social perception refers to identifying and utilising social cues to make judgements about social roles, relationships, rules, context, or the characteristics (e.g. trustworthiness) of others.

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