The Mind in Context

by Mesquita, Batja; Barrett, Lisa Feldman; Smith, Eliot R.

• ISBN13: 9781606235539
• ISBN10: 1606235532
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-29
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This compelling book illustrates that a new paradigm is forming in which contextual factors are considered central to the workings of the mind.

Author Biography

Batja Mesquita, PhD, is Professor of the Psychology of Emotion and Motivation at the Center for Cultural and Social Psychology at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Most of her research focuses on the constitutional role of cultural contexts in emotion. Dr. Mesquita has published widely on topics related to cultural differences in emotions and on acculturation and emotion. She has served as Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion and Emotion Review and is currently on the editorial boards of Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Dr. Mesquita is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

 

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Boston College, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on the nature of emotion from social-psychological, psychophysiological, cognitive science, and neuroscience perspectives, and takes inspiration from anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics. Dr. Barrett is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently a National Institutes of Health’s Pioneer Award and a National Institute of Mental Health’s Independent Scientist Research Award. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Emotion Review and sits on the editorial boards of other top-tier journals in the field. Dr. Barrett has published over 100 papers, chapters, and books. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

 

Eliot R. Smith, PhD, is Classes of the War Years Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. His research interests include the role of emotion in prejudice and intergroup behavior, as well as socially situated cognition. Dr. Smith’s research has been recognized by the Thomas M. Ostrom Award for lifetime contributions to social cognition from Indiana University, as well as the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He has served as Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

Table of Contents

The Context Principle	p. 1
Genes and the Brain
Epigenetic Inheritance	p. 25
Brain Networks and Embodiment	p. 42
Social Modulation of Hormones	p. 65
Cognition and Affect
Emoting: A Contextualized Process	p. 83
Meaning in Context: Metacognitive Experiences	p. 105
Situated Cognition	p. 126
The Person
The Situated Person	p. 149
Implicit Independence and Interdependence: A Cultural Task Analysis	p. 174
Platonic Blindness and the Challenge of Understanding Context	p. 201
Social Tuning of Ethnic Attitudes	p. 214
Behavior
The Multiple Forms of "Context" in Associative Learning Theory	p. 233
Threat, Marginality, and Reactions to Norm Violations	p. 259
Behavior as Mind in Context: A Cultural Psychology Analysis of "Paranoid" Suspicion in West African Worlds	p. 277
Challenging the Egocentric View of Coordinated Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing	p. 307
Conclusion: On the Vices of Nominalization and the Virtues of Contextualizing	p. 334
Index	p. 361
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