On the representation and processing of social information in grounded cognitive systems: Why terminology matters

The mechanisms underlying social behav-ior are indeed complex, yet researchers have made important contributions to our understanding of how people make judg-ments and behave across various social contexts. In particular, recent years has seen a proliferation of research spot-lighting the guiding role of embodied and affective information in social pro-cessing. Grounded approaches to cogni-tion offer an exciting opportunity for researchers throughout the cognitive sci-ences to work within a unified framework to shed light on traditionally nebulous and intractable psychological quagmires (e.g.