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Rethinking situated and embodied social psychology

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posted on 2024-11-14, 20:03 authored by Wim Pouw, Huib Looren de Jonge
This article aims to explore the scope of a Situated and Embodied Social Psychology (ESP). At first sight, social cognition seems embodied cognition par excellence. Social cognition is first and foremost a supra-individual, interactive, and dynamic process (Semin & Smith, 2013). Radical approaches in Situated/Embodied Cognitive Science (Enactivism) claim that social cognition consists in an emergent pattern of interaction between a continuously coupled organism and the (social) environment; it rejects representationalist accounts of cognition (Hutto & Myin, 2013). However, mainstream ESP (Barsalou, 1999, 2008) still takes a rather representation-friendly approach that construes embodiment in terms of specific bodily formatted representations used (activated) in social cognition. We argue that mainstream ESP suffers from vestiges of theoretical solipsism, which may be resolved by going beyond internalistic spirit that haunts mainstream ESP today.

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Pouw, W. T. J. L. & de Jonge, H. (2015). Rethinking situated and embodied social psychology. Theory and Psychology, 25 (4), 411-433.

Journal title

Theory & Psychology

Volume

25

Issue

4

Pagination

411-433

Language

English

RIS ID

102500

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