文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：The rediscovery of Fritz Heider's early social cognition: a person-centered perspective

作者：Shang, Yaming[1];Dong, Da[2,3];Chen, Wei[2,3]

机构：[1]Shaoxing Univ, Dept Math, Shaoxing, Peoples R China;[2]Shaoxing Univ, Ctr Brain Mind & Educ, Shaoxing, Peoples R China;[3]Shaoxing Univ, Dept Psychol, Shaoxing, Peoples R China

年份：2025

卷号：16

外文期刊名：FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

收录：SSCI(收录号：WOS:001503702900001)、、Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-105007540209)、WOS

基金：The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education (Grant No. 22YJC880059).

语种：英文

外文关键词：animacy perception; Fritz Heider; common-sense psychology; cognitive revolution; person perception; social perception; agency

外文摘要：In this article, we situate the social psychologist and philosopher Fritz Heider's theory within what we call "early social cognition," a historical approach preceding and radically differing from contemporary "social cognition." By incorporating recent developments in issues such as perception, animacy, and social structures (networks), we reassess key aspects of Heider's system to demonstrate their present-day significance. This analysis does not merely reiterate Heider's ideas but shifts the methodological focus from his causal analysis of event attribution to a constitutive scientific explanation. In particular, we examine Heider's early focus on the perceptual realism of the general object and his emphasis on the person-thing distinction. By engaging with contemporary developments on the animate-inanimate subcategorical distinction, we argue that Heider's person-centered perspective may offer a unified theoretical framework for the construction of theories in social cognition.