The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences has gone in its twelfth edition to psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor (UCLA) for their “outstanding contributions” in social cognition, a field which examines the “social mind,” i.e. the cognitive processes individuals use to understand other people and themselves. The committee reached its decision through a remote assessment process due to the extraordinary measures imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Read it online: The BBVA Foundation recognizes psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor (UCLA), the pioneers of social cognition who revealed the role of cognitive bias in social interactions.