Abstract: Literature on the contributions of social cognitive and emotion processes to children’s social competence is reviewed. Crick and Dodge’s cognitive model of social decision-making is introduced. Based on this model, Lmerise and Arsenio proposed an integrated model of emotion processes and cognition. The article focuses on the influence of emotion processes on the children’s encoding and interpretation of social information cues, clarification of goals, response access, response decision and behavior enactment.

Key words: social information processing, emotion processes, cognition, an integrated model