Making Minds
The shaping of human minds through social context
Published on 22. March 2007
Book
Hardback
275 pages
978-90-272-2234-3 (ISBN)
Description
Social stimuli are important proximate determinants of human thought, action, and behaviour. But does the social environment also have deeper, profounder, and possibly more distal impact on more lasting psychological structures and forms, generalizing across time and domains, such as traits, self-consciousness, abilities, and talents? This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of if, how, and how far the mind is socially fabricated: Philosophical contributions address conceptual tools for analyses of how person perceivers shape the psychological structures of the person perceived. Social psychologists consider some of the more local mechanisms of "mind making", including self fulfilling prophecies, attributions, and self-verification. Moreover, they address the dramatic consequences of being ostracised. From a clinical perspective it is investigated how patients' immediate social environment (e.g., the family) impacts on schizophrenic relapse. In addition, developmental psychologists report on investigations of the role of social factors, e.g., imitative learning, for the development of the social self. Finally an ethological perspective demonstrates the susceptibility of animals to social stimuli. These papers were previously published as Interaction Studies 6:1 and 6:3 (2005).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2234-3 (9789027222343)
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Content
1. Foreword: Making Minds: The shapping of human minds through social context; 2. Articles; 3. Of minds and mirrors: An introduction to the social making of minds (by Prinz, Wolfgang); 4. How minds and selves are made: Some conceptual preliminaries (by Kusch, Martin); 5. Dynamics of social coordination: The synchronization of internal states in close relationships (by Vallacher, Robin R.); 6. Construing and constructing others: On the reality and the generality of the behavioral confirmation scenario (by Snyder, Mark); 7. The self and identity negotiation (by Swann, Jr., William B.); 8. Social reality makes the social mind: Self-fulfilling prophecy, stereotypes, bias, and accuracy (by Jussim, Lee); 9. How to do things with logical expressions: Creating collective value through co-ordinated reasoning (by Hilton, Denis); 10. Attributions and peer harassment (by Graham, Sandra); 11. The shaping of individuals' mental structures and dispositions by others: Findings from research on expressed emotion (by Hahlweg, Kurt); 12. Ostracism: The making of the ignored and excluded mind (by Williams, Kipling D.); 13. Self processes in interdependent relationships: Partner affirmation and the Michelangelo phenomenon (by Rusbult, Caryl E.); 14. Constructing perspectives in the social making of minds (by Carpendale, Jeremy I.M.); 15. The shaping of animals' minds (by Salwiczek, Lucie H.); 16. Chimpanzees are sensitive to some of the psychological states of others (by Call, Josep); 17. The understanding of own and others' actions during infancy: "You-like-Me" or "Me-like-You"? (by Hauf, Petra); 18. Experiencing contingency and agency: First step toward self-understanding in making a mind? (by Nadel, Jacqueline); 19. The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitative learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy (by Gergely, Gyorgy); 20. File Change Semantics for Preschoolers: Alternative naming and belief understanding (by Perner, Josef)