Most psychology research still assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, waiting to be expressed or activated. This compelling book illustrates that a new paradigm is forming in which contextual factors are considered central to the workings of the mind. Leading experts explore how psychological processes emerge from the transactions of individuals with their physical, social, and cultural environments. The volume showcases cutting-edge research on the contextual nature of such phenomena as gene expression, brain networks, the regulation of hormones, perception, cognition, personality, knowing, learning, and emotion.
Tabela de Conteúdo
1. The Context Principle, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Batja Mesquita, and Eliot R. Smith
I. Genes and the Brain
2. Epigenetic Inheritance, Lawrence V. Harper
3. Brain Networks and Embodiment, Olaf Sporns
4. Social Modulation of Hormones, Sari M. van Anders
II. Cognition and Affect
5. Emoting: A Contextualized Process, Batja Mesquita
6. Meaning in Context: Meta-Cognitive Experiences, Norbert Schwarz
7. Situated Cognition, Eliot R. Smith and Elizabeth C. Collins
III. The Person
8. The Situated Person, Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda
9. Implicit Independence and Interdependence: A Cultural Task Analysis, Shinobu Kitayama and Toshie Imada
10. Platonic Blindness and the Challenge of Understanding Context, Yarrow Dunham and Mahzarin R. Banaji
11. Social Tuning of Ethnic Attitudes, Stacey Sinclair and Janetta Lun
IV. Behavior
12. The Multiple Forms of ‘Context’ in Associative Learning Theory, Mark E. Bouton
13. Threat, Marginality, and Reactions to Norm Violations, Deborah A. Prentice and Thomas E. Trail
14. Behavior as Mind in Context: A Cultural Psychology Analysis of ‘Paranoid’ Suspicion in West African Worlds, Glen Adams, Phia S. Salter, Kate M. Pickett, Tugçe Kurtis, and Nia L. Phillips
15. Challenging the Egocentric View of Coordinated Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing, Michael J. Richardson, Kerry L. Marsh, and R. C. Schmidt
16. Conclusion: On the Vices of Nominalization and the Virtues of Contextualizing, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Christine D. Wilson, and Wendy Hasenkamp
Sobre o autor
Batja Mesquita, Ph D, is Professor of the Psychology of Emotion and Motivation at the Center for Cultural and Social Psychology at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Most of her research focuses on the constitutional role of cultural contexts in emotion. Dr. Mesquita has published widely on topics related to cultural differences in emotions and on acculturation and emotion. She has served as Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion and Emotion Review and is currently on the editorial boards of Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Dr. Mesquita is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph D, is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, with research appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and is a faculty member at the MGH Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. Her research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives, and incorporates insights from anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and the history of psychology. She is the recipient of a Pioneer Award from the National Institute of Health, among numerous other awards, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Psychological Science. She was a founding Editor-in-Chief of Emotion Review and cofounder of the Society for Affective Science. Dr. Barrett has published more than 170 papers and book chapters.
Eliot R. Smith, Ph D, is Classes of the War Years Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. His research interests include the role of emotion in prejudice and intergroup behavior, as well as socially situated cognition. Dr. Smith’s research has been recognized by the Thomas M. Ostrom Award for lifetime contributions to social cognition from Indiana University, as well as the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He has served as Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.