Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Mind, and Culture

by Semin; Gnn R.

• ISBN13: 9781848728998
• ISBN10: 1848728999
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-08
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: From Neurons to Shared Cognition and Culture	p. 1
Foundations of Sociality
Mirroring as a Key Neural Mechanism of Sociality	p. 13
Motor Involvement in Action and Object Perception: Similarity and Complementarity	p. 27
Sociality, From an Ecological, Dynamical Perspective	p. 53
Sociality in Extremis: Removing the Boundaries Between Self and Other	p. 83
Sociality and Memory
On the Virtues of an Unreliable Memory: Its Role in Constructing Sociality	p. 95
How Communication Shapes Memory: Shared Reality and Implications for Culture	p. 115
Sociality: Uuderlying Motives, Dialogical Practice, and culture
Sharing Inner States: A Defining Feature of Human Motivation	p. 149
The Use of Prediction to Drive Alignment in Dialogue	p. 175
Situated Sociality and Cultural Dynamics: A Puzzle of Necessary Dependency and Perceived Dissociation	p. 193
Evolutionary perspectives on sociality
Too Much Monkey Business	p. 219
Revolutionary Darwinism: Sociality Is the Ground	p. 237
Author Index	p. 261
Subject Index	p. 273
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