The cognitive social structure (Cognitive Social Structure), as research calls it, arises from what people observe about relationships around them, how they interpret this observation and what they know from the stories of the people around them about the relationships. So it’s not about the direct relationships or the part that we have in mind. That’s not it yet alone, this also includes knowledge about the relationships of others, so the relationships of our relationships. Even more, we also include the relations of people to whom we have no direct or at most super weak relationships, so those of strangers, but we can observe them. This means that only those relationships that we can perceive influence our conscious behavior. With the term “conscious” behavior. I distinguish myself in this assumption from the relationship effects that take place behind our backs and therefore cannot “consciously” influence our behavior.