Social Cognition

Neurocognitive disorder involving difficulty recognizing faces

Prosopagnosia

Condition involving difficulty with social cognition and mind perception

Autism

Condition involving impaired empathy and atypical mind perception

Psychopathy

People naturally focus attention on faces, especially the eyes

Face attention bias

Brain region specialized for face perception

Fusiform face area (FFA)

Early brain response to faces measured with EEG

N170

Alternative view that face processing reflects expertise rather than specialization

Expertise hypothesis

Tendency to better recognize faces of one’s own race

Cross-race effect (CRE)

Understanding that others have beliefs and desires different from one’s own

Theory of mind

Using one’s own thoughts to infer others’ mental states

Projection

Using group-based assumptions to infer others’ mental states

Stereotyping

Capacity for intention, planning, and responsibility

Agency

Capacity for sensation, emotion, and feeling pain

Experience