Rethinking situated and embodied social psychology

Pouw, Wim; Jong, Huib Looren de

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“…Despite growing recognition in our field that psychological processes are closely tied to physical, bodily processes (Niedenthal et al, 2005;Pouw & Looren de Jong, 2015;Schubert & Semin, 2009; E. R. Smith & Semin, 2004), a fully embodied account must also acknowledge that any given behavior also depends on the supporting structure of the physical environment. Walking, for example, is a behavior that not only requires certain bodily functioning and neural capacities, but it also requires complementary environmental properties, such as a level surface, a lack of obstacles, and an adequate gravitational field.…”

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“…First, over the last two decades, a substantial body of research has demonstrated the embodied and situated nature of cognitive processes (Barsalou, 1999(Barsalou, , 2008Marsh, Johnston, Richardson, & Schmidt, 2009;Niedenthal, Barsalou, Winkielman, Krauth-Gruber, & Ric, 2005;Schubert & Semin, 2009; E. R. Smith & Semin, 2004). Perspectives on the specifics of what embodiment entails vary (Alessandroni, 2018;Pouw & Looren de Jong, 2015), but they are consistent in their critiques of the traditional cognitivist framework conceptualizing the mind as an isolated information processor. Instead, one's physical, bodily state is seen as playing a central role in mental activity, implying that psychological activity must be explained not just in terms of representations and mental models but also in terms of the actions of the entire physical organism.…”

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Ecologizing Social Psychology: The Physical Environment as a Necessary Constituent of Social Processes

Meagher

2019

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Recent trends in social psychology point to increased interest in extending current theories by better incorporating the body (e.g., embodied cognition) and the broader interpersonal context (e.g., situations). However, despite being a critical component in early social theorizing, the physical environment remains in large part underdeveloped in most research programs. In this article, I outline an ecological framework for understanding the person–environment relationship. After introducing this perspective, I describe how this approach helps reveal the critical role played by the physical environment in a variety of social processes, including childhood development, interpersonal relationships, and social identity. Finally, I review a topic in environmental psychology that has received little attention among social psychologists: territories. I provide an ecological perspective on how the design, use, and personalization of this type of environment guide and constrain regulatory processes involving social behavior, identity expression, and emotional experience.

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Ecologizing Social Psychology: The Physical Environment as a Necessary Constituent of Social Processes

Meagher

2019

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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“…One of the key principles emerging from recent work in embodied psychology is the recognition that cognitive processes emerged specifically to facilitate adaptive behaviour in the physical world (Cole & Balcetis, ; Smith & Semin, ; Wilson, ). A comprehensive embodied and situated perspective on human social functioning therefore requires addressing the relation between an actor and the objects and environment with which he or she seeks to act (Marsh, Johnston, Richardson, & Schmidt, ; Pouw & Looren de Jong, ). The current studies provide evidence that the social meaning and the functional meaning of physical objects are inextricably intertwined for human perceivers.…”

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Judging the gender of the inanimate: Benevolent sexism and gender stereotypes guide impressions of physical objects

Meagher

2017

British J Social Psychol

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Within a given culture, sexist ideologies and stereotypes are largely characterized by their prescriptive expectations for the types of social and behavioural domains men and women occupy. The activities that take place within these respective domains, however, frequently involve designed, physical artefacts. This study reports a pair of studies that test whether sexist schemas are capable of guiding not only impressions of men and women as social groups, but also their impressions of the inanimate objects associated with these groups. In Study 1, benevolent sexism was found to predict a greater willingness to classify physical objects as being either highly feminine or highly masculine, even when these objects had a neutral rating by the sample as a whole. In Study 2, stereotypes consistent with legitimizing ideologies (i.e., competence and warmth) predicted rating associated objects in complementary ways, in terms of greater liking of feminine objects but greater presumed competence needed for using masculine objects. These results demonstrate how sexist beliefs and attitudes are capable of bleeding into people's impressions of the physical world.

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“…So an increasing number of brain imaging studies are confirming an embodied view of IWMs (Bretherton & Munholland, 2016). So viewing IWMs as embodied simulations is not only fully in the 'spirit' of Bowlby's original conception for IWMs, but also matches the 'word' of what he wrote about IWMs when he first introduced them (Pouw & de Jong, 2015).…”

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“…But as we saw in section 5.1 the predictive processing framework (Clark, 2014) provides a strong alternative to sensorimotor enactivism, and it is also an alternative to the adaptive control of basic minds presented in this section that would support close interaction between lower level control mechanisms and higher level linguistic mediation. So future work can more closely examine whether Attachment Theory is best revised within a 'representation friendly' framework (Pouw & de Jong, 2015) or the more radical approach of basic REC minds (Hutto & Myin, 2013).…”

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An encounter between 4e cognition and attachment theory

Petters

2016

Connection Science

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This paper explores a constructive revision of the conceptual underpinnings of Attachment Theory through an encounter with the diverse elements of 4e cognition. Attachment relationships involve the development of preference for one or a few carers and expectations about their availability and responsiveness as a haven of safety and a base from which to explore. In Attachment Theory, mental representations have been assigned a central organising role in explaining attachment phenomena. The 4e cognition approaches in cognitive science raise a number of questions about the development and interplay of attachment and cognition. These include: (1) the nature of what Bowlby called "internal working models of attachment"; (2) the extent to which the infant-carer dyad functions as an extension of the infant's mind; and (3) whether Bowlby's attachment control system concept can be usefully re-framed in enactive terms where traditional cognitivist representations are: (3i) substituted for sensorimotor skill-focused mediating representations; (3ii) viewed as arising from autopoietic living organisms and/or (3iii) mostly composed from the non-contentful mechanisms of basic minds?. A theme that cross-cuts these research questions is how representations for capturing meaning, and structures for adaptive control, are both required to explain the full range of behaviour of interest to Attachment Theory researchers.

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Rethinking situated and embodied social psychology

Cited by 9 publications

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Ecologizing Social Psychology: The Physical Environment as a Necessary Constituent of Social Processes

Ecologizing Social Psychology: The Physical Environment as a Necessary Constituent of Social Processes

Judging the gender of the inanimate: Benevolent sexism and gender stereotypes guide impressions of physical objects

An encounter between 4e cognition and attachment theory

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