Embodied Social Cognition and Comparative Literature

Is social cognition embodied?

Theories of embodied cognition abound in the literature, but it is often unclear how to understand them. We offer several interpretations of embodiment, the most interesting being the thesis that mental representations in bodily formats (B-formats) have an important role in cognition. Potential B-formats include motoric, somatosensory, affective and interoceptive formats. The literature on mirr...

kant on the embodied cognition

Comparative social cognition.

Theory of mind is said to be uniquely human. Is this statement justified? Thirty years of research on a variety of species has produced differences in opinion, from unequivocal positive evidence to no evidence at all for mental attribution in animals. Our review concludes that animals are excellent ethologists, but on the whole, poor psychologists. Those studies that we believe present a good c...

Interfaces of social psychology with situated and embodied cognition

The recent rise of interest in situated and embodied cognition has a strong interdisciplinary flavor, with contributions from robotics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology, among other disciplines. However, social psychology has been almost completely unrepresented. Social psychologists investigate the ways people perceive, interact with, and influence eac...

Interfaces of social psychology with situated and embodied 11 cognition

19 The recent rise of interest in situated and embodied cognition has a strong interdisciplinary flavor, with contributions from 20 robotics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology, among other disciplines. However, 21 social psychology has been almost completely unrepresented. Social psychologists investigate the ways people perceive, 22 interact with, and i...