Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Mind, and Culture - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848728999 ISBN 13 : 9781848728998

Editeur : Psychology Press Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

This volume shows how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It reveals how we take each other into account, coordinate our actions, and share our inner states through communication. It will be of interest to social psychologists, and those working in cognition, neuroscience, and sociology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gün Semin is an Academy Professor with The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University. He has previously served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Psychology at the Free University (1990-2004), where he also was the Research Director (2000-2003) of the Faculty of Psychology and Education. He was also the founding Scientific Director of the Kurt Lewin Institute (1992-1996), the inter-university graduate school in social psychology and its applications and was Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Sciences (SCSS) of the European Science Foundation. His main research interest is in embodied social cognition, communication and language - aside from specific research projects he is currently running on affect and affective processes and action-perception link. He is a widely published author and has developed a linguistic model, which has resulted in the study of language and social cognition. Further information about his research and publications can be obtained via http: //cratylus.org/ .

Gerald Echterhoff, Dr. habil., Ph.D. (New School for Social Research, New York, 2000), holds a full professorship for social psychology at Münster University, Germany. Before he was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University (2001-2002), assistant professor (wiss. Assistent) at Bielefeld University, Germany (2004-2008), visiting professor at the University of Cologne, Germany (2008), and professor of psychology at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. His research interests include interpersonal communication, shared reality, social influence on memory and judgment, social cognition, and cultural contexts of remembering. In a signature field of investigation, his lab group studies how audience-oriented communication shapes speakers' own memory and thinking. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Social Cognition. He is editor of several volumes including "Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns [Contexts and Cultures of Remembering]" (with Martin Saar; 2002). Also see http: //geraldechterhoff.com .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Psychology Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848728999
• ISBN 13: 9781848728998
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Semin Gün R., Echterhoff Gerald
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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