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In some social psychology constructs, society holds only contextual influences (admittedly to a greater or lesser degree) over the human information processing. Therefore, communication is considered to be “social” only in a casual manner (it might ultimately not be so at all) or else in a pleonastic one (it is so by its very definition). Yet a number of works conversely suggest the equivalent nature of communication, cognition and sociability : when speaking of one of these terms, we are necessarily referring to the two others ; when working with one of them in the framework of a theoretical or empirical apparatus, we are inevitably working with the other two. The consequences of this regard on social psychology are often unforeseen and at times even subversive.