ABSTRACT
This chapter includes the 'cold-blooded aspects of cognition' into contact with the interpersonal domain. It focuses upon some characteristics of social interaction as interpreted in terms of Jean Piaget's decentering concept. Children of various chronological ages were given a projective role-taking task, which elicits interpersonal content, and a series of impersonal cognitive tasks developed by Piaget and his co-workers. The chapter also explains a more direct extension of the decentering concept to interpersonal behavior in that it focuses upon the decentering implications of interaction between two individuals. It discusses the decentering notion directly to social interaction, a major consideration was whether, in the password situation, it was the characteristic of interaction, as such, that constituted the source of experimental variation. The chapter provides a support for the extension of the decentering concept to social interaction.
