Acceptance speech by Susan Fiske, winner of the 2019 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences, who was honored alongside Shelley Taylor for their pioneering contributions to the development of social cognition, a field that studies how people process information to understand others and themselves. Her research has helped explain the role of mental shortcuts in forming social judgments and how factors such as cooperation, competition and power relations influence stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.
Fiske reflects on the importance of integrating different scientific disciplines and recalls how her collaboration with Shelley Taylor led to the publication of Social Cognition in 1984. She explains the concept of the “cognitive miser,” which describes how people rely on mental shortcuts to interpret complex social situations, and examines how these mechanisms contribute to t
Acceptance speech by Susan Fiske, winner of the 2019 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences, who was honored alongside Shelley Taylor for their pioneering contributions to the development of social cognition, a field that studies how people process information to understand others and themselves. Her research has helped explain the role of mental shortcuts in forming social judgments and how factors such as cooperation, competition and power relations influence stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.
Fiske reflects on the importance of integrating different scientific disciplines and recalls how her collaboration with Shelley Taylor led to the publication of Social Cognition in 1984. She explains the concept of the “cognitive miser,” which describes how people rely on mental shortcuts to interpret complex social situations, and examines how these mechanisms contribute to the formation of stereotypes. She also highlights how interdisciplinary research provides a deeper understanding of human behavior and has opened up new applications for social cognition in fields such as health, education and politics.
