Cognitive Chain-of-Thought (CoCoT): Structured Multimodal Reasoning about Social Situations
Cognitive Chain-of-Thought (CoCoT) is introduced, a reasoning framework that structures vision-language-model reasoning through three cognitively inspired stages: Perception, Situation, and Norm, showing that structuring model reasoning through cognitively grounded stages enhances interpretability and social alignment, laying the groundwork for more reliable multimodal systems.