“…Social cognition, or the mental operations that enable social interactions like perceiving, interpreting, and generating responses to the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of others , has received particular emphasis (Green and Leitman, 2008), with one meta-analysis indicating social cognitive abilities are more closely related to functional outcomes for those with schizophrenia than neurocognition (Fett et al, 2011). Many consider the social deficits seen in schizophrenia to be a core feature of the illness, contributing fundamentally to the nature of psychosis (Gallese, 2003) and long-term outcome (Stevens et al, 2009). People with schizophrenia exhibit worse performance than healthy controls in multiple social cognitive domains, including social perception, emotion processing, emotion perception, and theory of mind (Savla et al, 2013).…”