If the psychological tests used to measure social cognition deficits are so outdated that they may not yield accurate results, are those results valid? Social cognition refers to an individual’s process of responding to interactions with empathy, interpreting facial expressions and nonverbal communication, and perceiving subtexts of words, such as sarcasm and lying. “While some effective tools exist to identify people showing early symptoms of potential psychosis, the social cognition tasks used are far from ideal.”Mid-to-late adolescence or early adulthood is often when disorders involving psychosis become evident. “That’s why we must evaluate the measures themselves, and in schizophrenia and social cognition, we now realize that nearly every task has flaws.”Pinkham said the assessments are often poorly applicable to a younger generation. “The link between social cognitive difficulty and psychosis, however, is not specific; we see social cognitive difficulties broadly across a number of disorders.