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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Psychology of Embodiment.- Part I: Theoretical Foundations.- Chapter 2: Dynamic Grounding of Concepts: Implications for Emotion and Social Cognition.- Chapter 3: The Feelings-as-Information Perspective on Embodiment.- Chapter 4: Interoceptive Approaches to Embodiment.- Chapter 5: The Metaphorical Body.- Chapter 6: The Extended Mind Thesis and Its Applications.- Part II: Cognitive and Neuroscience Perspectives.- Chapter 7: Measuring the Mathematical Mind: Embodied Evidence from Negative Numbers, Calculation Biases, Motor Resonance, and Emotional Priming.- Chapter 8: The Challenge of Abstract Concepts.- Chapter 9: Abstract Concepts and Social Metacognition: Sociality from the Inside?.- Chapter 10: Auditory Embodied Cognition of Emotion.- Chapter 11: Location, Timing, and Magnitude of Embodied Language Processing.- Chapter 12: Differential Influences of Multisensory Integration and Attention in Embodied Perception.- Chapter 13: Bodily Relativity: How our Bodies Shape our Brains and Minds.- Chapter 14: Embodied Perception and Action in Real and Virtual Environments.- Part III: Social and Personality Perspectives.- Chapter 15: Embodiment of Social Relations in Thinking and Communicating is Determined by Conformation Systems.- Chapter 16: Social Relational Embodiment in Times of the Replication Crisis.- Chapter 17: Social Cognition, the 4Es, and the 4As (Affect, Affordance, Agency, and Autonomy).- Chapter 18: Forms and Functions of Affective Synchrony.- Chapter 19: From Culture to Body and Back: A Journey into Embodied Social Cognition.- Chapter 20: Comparing Metaphor Theory and Embodiment in Research on Social Cognition and Behavior.- Chapter 21: Embodied Perspectives on Personality.- Chapter 22: Embodiment in Clinical Disorders and Treatment.- Part IV: Current Issues and Future Directions.- Chapter 23: An Evolutionary Perspective on Embodiment.- Chapter 24: Mechanisms of Embodied Learning through Actions and Gestures: Lessons from Development.- Chapter 25: Embodiment in the Lab: Measurement, Theory Testing, and Reproducibility.- Chapter 26: Alternative Interpretations of Embodiment in Psychology.- Chapter 27: The Future of Embodiment Research: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Challenges Ahead.
About the author
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.
