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Grounding sociality : neurons, mind, and culture / edited by Gun R. Semin & Gerald Echterhoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social interaction--Psychological aspects.
- Social interaction.
- Cognition and culture.
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Psychology Press, 2011.
- New York, N.Y. : Psychology Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It explores how humans take each other into account, coordinate their actions, and are able to share their inner states and to communicate.Sophisticated views on the bases of sociality are detailed at the level of neural mechanisms, perception and memory, motivation, communication and dialog, culture, and evolution. These insights have been inspired by major strides and exciting new developments in disciplines as far afield as ethol
- Contents:
- section 1. Foundations of sociality
- section 2. Sociality and memory
- section 3. Sociality : underlying motives, dialogical practice, and culture
- section 4. Evolutionary perspectives on sociality.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-90649-5
- 1-136-90650-9
- 1-283-03718-1
- 9786613037183
- 0-203-84255-3
- 9780203842553
- OCLC:
- 705930355
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