ADAPTIVE SOCIAL COGNITION LAB
OVERVIEW
Whether a person navigates their personal or professional life effectively depends on balancing the ability to choose courses of action given long-term goals, and the ability to create and sustain supportive social connections. But social connections don’t just happen.
The Adaptive Social Cognition Lab is committed to the idea that although there’s a social readiness to people’s minds, cognitive abilities and effective social judgment are necessary for social coordination and staying socially connected. Social connections can in turn help us stay cognitively and brain fit and also facilitate effective goal seeking and decision-making -- the two go hand in hand.
The ASC Lab is situated at the University of Michigan and organizes research that is carried out both in the Psychology Department and the Research Center for Group Dynamics, ISR. Oscar Ybarra, Associate Professor of Psychology, directs the lab.
