社会推理是社会认知的中心课题之一。传统的认知理论把人看成是能按照理性的原则进行思维的“非专业科学家”。在进行社会推理时,能遵守一种“正规模型”:确定问题的信息来源、收集相关的有用信息、综合所收集的信息并作出推理。但到了七十年代,这种假定受到大量的批评。新观点把人看 Social reasoning is one of the central topics of social cognition. Traditional cognitive theory regards people as “non-professional scientists” who can think according to the principle of reason. In social reasoning, a “formal model” can be followed: identifying sources of information about the problem, gathering relevant and useful information, synthesizing the information collected, and making reasoning. But by the seventies, this assumption was heavily criticized. The new view of people