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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access published online on March 28, 2008
Schizophrenia Bulletin, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbn014
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© 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.

Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: An Overview

David L. Penn1,2, Lawrence J. Sanna2 and David L. Roberts2
2 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

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{at}email.unc.edu.

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.

Keywords: social cognition / attributions / emotion perception / theory of mind / functional outcome


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