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ONSITE: Social perception is, in psychology and other cognitive sciences, that part of perception that allows people to understand the individuals and groups of their social world, and thus an element of social cognition.[1]

It allows people to determine how others affect their personal lives. While social perceptions can be flawed, they help people to form impressions of others by making the necessary information available to assess what people are like. Missing information is filled in by using an implicit personality theory: if a person is observed to have one particular trait, observers tend to assume that he or she has other traits related to this observed one. These assumptions help to "categorize" people and then infer additional facts and predict behavior.[2]

Social perceptions are also interlinked with self-perceptions. Both are influenced by self-motives. Society has the desire to achieve beneficial outcomes for the self and to maintain a positive self-image,[vague] both for personal psychic benefits and because we know that others are perceiving us as well. It is human nature to want to create a good impression on others, almost as if self-perceptions are others' social perceptions.[3]

Social Perception is a key component of social skills. It is the cognitive ability to attend to, and interpret a range of different social factors including verbal messages, intonation, non-verbal bahavior, knowledge of social relationships and understanding social goals. Cognitive inability in these areas have been linked to poor social skills.

Deficits in Social Perception have been reported in many clinical conditions including schizophrenia, learning disabilities, autism, Asperger's Syndrome, traumatic brain injury, and various forms of dementia including fronto-temporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Social Perception is a critical area for rehabilitation for disorders that represent a major stumbling block for successful integration back into society following brain impairment or the onset of other clinical conditions.

TASIT The Awareness of Social Inference Test is an audiovisual test that was created for the clinical assessment of social perception. The test is based upons several critical components of social perception that are critical to social competence using complex, dynamic, visual, and auditory cues to assess these critical components. The test assesses the ability to identify emotions, a skill that is impaired in many clinical conditions, including traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, learning disabilities, autism, fronto-temporal dementia, and Parkinson's disease. It also assesses the ability to judge what a speaker maybe thinking or what their intentions are for the other person in the conversation, also known as Theory of Mind. Lastly, the test was developed to assess the ability to differentiate between literal and non-literal converasational remarks.

The test is comprised of three parts. Part 1