Impaired social functioning is an important symptom in SCZ SCZ is a chronic severe psychotic illness that affects two to three million Americans, over 100,000 of whom are veterans (Owen et al. 2004). There are several key symptom domains that characterize the illness. Positive symptoms (such as hallucinations and delusions) are at least somewhat responsive to antipsychotic medication in a majority of patients. Negative symptoms such as poor motivation, anhedonia, poor social function, and poor occupational function are poorly responsive to medication or other currently available treatments. The deficit syndrome has been defined as a complex of these negative symptoms that endure throughout the course of a schizophrenia patient's disease (Kirkpatrick et al. 1989). The social impairments seen in these patients are core deficits that have been linked to poor functional outcomes (Couture et al. 2006; Fett et al. 2011). Furthermore, deficits in social cognition have been proposed to underlie and contribute significantly to impaired social functioning (Kern et al. 2008; Green et al. 2008). An underlying hypothesis of this work is that if social cognition could be effectively treated, these patients would improve their social and functional outcomes, potentially enabling them to achieve occupational competence, sustain stable independent living, and lead more fulfilling independent lives. Thus our understanding and treatment of the social impairments of SCZ is very important from a public health perspective.