Grounding sociality [electronic resource] : neurons, mind, and culture /
Semin, G. R.
Echterhoff, Gerald.
New York : Psychology Press,
c2011.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1 Introduction: From Neurons to Shared Cognition and Culture; Section I: Foundations of Sociality; 2 Mirroring as a Key Neural Mechanism of Sociality; 3 Motor Involvement in Action and Object Perception: Similarity and Complementarity; 4 Sociality, From an Ecological, Dynamical Perspective; 5 Sociality in Extremis: Removing the Boundaries Between Self and Other; Section II: Sociality and Memory; 6 On the Virtues of an Unreliable Memory: Its Role in Constructing Sociality.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Social interaction
Cognition and culture.
Evolutionary psychology.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Grounding sociality.
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