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      Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: An Overview

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          The purpose of this column is to provide an overview of social cognition in schizophrenia. The column begins with a short introduction to social cognition. Then, we describe the application of social cognition to the study of schizophrenia, with an emphasis on key domains (i.e., emotion perception, Theory of Mind, and attributional style). We conclude the column by discussing the relationship of social cognition to neurocognition, negative symptoms, and functioning, with an eye toward strategies for improving social cognition in schizophrenia.

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                Journal
                Schizophr Bull
                schbul
                schbul
                Schizophrenia Bulletin
                Oxford University Press
                0586-7614
                1745-1701
                May 2008
                28 March 2008
                : 34
                : 3
                : 408-411
                Affiliations
                [2 ]University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
                Author notes
                [1 ]To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Davie Hall, CB#3270, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270; tel: 919-843-7514, fax: 919-962-2537, e-mail: dpenn@ 123456email.unc.edu .
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                10.1093/schbul/sbn014
                2632430
                18375928
                83a3c29f-2a0f-4c55-a47d-fc3bf20491ad
                © 2008 The Authors

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                Special Features
                Schizophrenia in Translation-Feature Editor: Thomas H. McGlashan

                Neurology
                emotion perception,functional outcome,attributions,social cognition,theory of mind
                Neurology
                emotion perception, functional outcome, attributions, social cognition, theory of mind

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