Sociocognitive

Sociocognitive or socio-cognitive is a term especially used when complex cognitive and social properties are reciprocally connected and essential for a given problem.

It has been used in academic literature with three different meanings:

1. It can indicate a branch of science, engineering or technology, such as socio-cognitive research, or socio-cognitive interactions,
2. It can refer to the integration of the cognitive and social properties of systems, , functions, as well as models, or
3. It can describe how processes of group formation effect cognition, studied in cognitive sociology.