Grounding Sociality

Neurons, Mind, and Culture

Gün R Semin editor Gerald Echterhoff editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:8th Nov '10

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This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It explores how humans take each other into account, coordinate their actions, and are able to share their inner states and to communicate.

Sophisticated views on the bases of sociality are detailed at the level of neural mechanisms, perception and memory, motivation, communication and dialog, culture, and evolution. These insights have been inspired by major strides and exciting new developments in disciplines as far afield as ethology, evolutionary ecology, neuroscience, cognition, memory, developmental and social psychology, psycholinguistics, philosophy, robotics, and sociology. The volume is the first to bridge these disciplinary boundaries to lay the foundations for an integrated and general conceptualization of the bases of sociality and its implications for psychology. Each contribution presents different levels of the grounding of sociality and will further stimulate novel approaches to linking different layers of sociality, from the neural to the cultural level.

"A must-read overview of the cutting-edge science of embodied, situated social responses, here grounded at bodily levels from cortex to culture. The sampled authors provide original, deep, and provocative accounts of this exciting approach." - Susan T. Fiske, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA

"Fundamental questions about the processes underlying human sociality have recently come into focus: How do we understand and empathize with each others’ mental states, cooperate, and carry out joint action? This timely collection brings together major contributions from perspectives ranging across social psychology, neuroscience, evolution, ecological psychology, and cultural psychology. It will be a valuable resource for any researchers interested in the origins and nature of social life." - Eliot R. Smith, Ph.D., Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, USA

"In this exciting volume, internationally renowned experts offer incisive and nuanced accounts of the grounding of human sociality from multiple disciplinary perspectives. This is a volume the field has been waiting for." - Chi-yue Chiu, Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

ISBN: 9781848728998

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 498g

288 pages