Overview
- Integrates research across psychological disciplines to form the first resource on the topic of embodiment
- Links topical chapters to theoretical perspectives on interoception, grounded cognition, and conceptual metaphor
- Challenges traditionally accepted ideas about perceiving, thinking and doing
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About this book
This edited volume seeks to integrate research and scholarship on the topic of embodiment, with the idea being that thinking and feeling are often grounded in more concrete representations related to perception and action. The book centers on psychological approaches to embodiment and includes chapters speaking to development as well as clinical issues, though a larger number focus on topics related to cognition and neuroscience as well as social and personality psychology. These topical chapters are linked to theory-based chapters centered on interoception, grounded cognition, conceptual metaphor, and the extended mind thesis. Further, a concluding section speaks to critical issues such as replication concerns, alternative interpretations, and future directions. The final result is a carefully conceived product that is a comprehensive and well-integrated volume on the psychology of embodiment. The primary audience for this book is academic psychologists from many different areas of psychology (e.g., social, developmental, cognitive, clinical). The secondary audience consists of disciplines in which ideas related to embodied cognition figure prominently, such as counseling, education, biology, and philosophy.
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Keywords
- feelings-as-information perspective on embodiment
- interoceptive approaches to embodiment
- the metaphorical body
- the extended mind thesis and its applications
- how associations between numbers & space influence tasks
- abstract concepts and social metacognition
- auditory embodied cognition of emotion
- location, timing, and magnitude of embodied language processing
- multisensory integration and attention in embodied perception
- how our bodies shape our brains and minds
- embodied perception and action in real and virtual environments
- social relational embodiment and replication concerns
- forms and functions of affective synchrony
- embodiment in social cognition, behavior, and personality
- embodiment in clinical disorders and treatment
- evolutionary perspectives on embodiment
- mechanisms of embodied learning through actions and gestures
- theory testing and reproducibility in embodiment research
- ideomotor theory in embodiment research
Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cognitive and Neuroscience Perspectives
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Social and Personality Perspectives
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael D. Robinson is a Professor at North Dakota State University and has an extensive publication record in the areas of personality, embodiment, cognition, emotion, and self-regulation. He has also edited several books, including two in the Springer catalog.
Laura E. Thomas is an Associate Professor at North Dakota State University. Her research incorporates approaches from vision science and embodied cognition to study the ways in which action, action affordances, and social interactions affect perception and key components of cognition such as attention, memory, and problem solving.
Laura E. Thomas is an Associate Professor at North Dakota State University. Her research incorporates approaches from vision science and embodied cognition to study the ways in which action, action affordances, and social interactions affect perception and key components of cognition such as attention, memory, and problem solving.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Embodied Psychology
Book Subtitle: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting
Editors: Michael D. Robinson, Laura E. Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78471-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78470-6Published: 01 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78473-7Published: 01 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78471-3Published: 31 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 642
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Clinical Psychology, Emotion