Throughout our daily activities, we all experience a continuous flow of quick, evaluative thoughts. These are called automatic thoughts. Automatic thoughts are not a deliberate choice but emerge spontaneously. Our minds are flooded with these thoughts continuously.  

‘Why is this lady talking so loud?’

‘I love this song.’

What is social information processing?

Social information processing is an extremely well-supported psychological theory that describes how we all think when we interact with people. Every time any of us have a social encounter with someone, there are five cognitive steps that are responsible for how we understand that social encounter and how we react to it.