Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion

@article{citeulike:276884, abstract = {Findings in the social psychology literatures on attitudes, social perception, and emotion demonstrate that social information processing involves embodiment, where embodiment refers both to actual bodily states and to simulations of experience in the brain's modality-specific systems for perception, action, and introspection. We show that embodiment underlies social information processing when the perceiver interacts with actual social objects (online cognition) and when the perceiver represents social objects in their absence (offline cognition). Although many empirical demonstrations of social embodiment exist, no particularly compelling account of them has been offered. We propose that theories of embodied cognition, such as the Perceptual Symbol Systems (PSS) account (Barsalou, 1999), explain and integrate these findings, and that they also suggest exciting new directions for research. We compare the PSS account to a variety of related proposals and show how it addresses criticisms that have previously posed problems for the general embodiment approach.}, author = {Niedenthal​‌, Paula M. and Barsalou​‌, Lawrence W. and Winkielman​‌, Piotr and Krauth-Gruber​‌, Silvia and Ric​‌, Francois }, citeulike-article-id = {276884}, doi = {10.1207/s15327957pspr0903\_1}, journal = {Personality and Social Psychology Review}, keywords = {attitude, embodied-cognition, embodiment, emotion, social-cognition, social-perception}, number = {3}, pages = {184--211}, posted-at = {2005-08-08 15:58:53}, priority = {4}, title = {Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion}, url = {http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327957pspr0903\_1}, volume = {9}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:276884 L3 - citeulike-article-id:276884 TI - Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion JF - Personality and Social Psychology Review VL - 9 IS - 3 SP - 184 EP - 211 N2 - Findings in the social psychology literatures on attitudes, social perception, and emotion demonstrate that social information processing involves embodiment, where embodiment refers both to actual bodily states and to simulations of experience in the brain's modality-specific systems for perception, action, and introspection. We show that embodiment underlies social information processing when the perceiver interacts with actual social objects (online cognition) and when the perceiver represents social objects in their absence (offline cognition). Although many empirical demonstrations of social embodiment exist, no particularly compelling account of them has been offered. We propose that theories of embodied cognition, such as the Perceptual Symbol Systems (PSS) account (Barsalou, 1999), explain and integrate these findings, and that they also suggest exciting new directions for research. We compare the PSS account to a variety of related proposals and show how it addresses criticisms that have previously posed problems for the general embodiment approach. KW - attitude KW - embodied-cognition KW - embodiment KW - emotion KW - social-cognition KW - social-perception AU - Niedenthal​‌, Paula AU - Barsalou​‌, Lawrence AU - Winkielman​‌, Piotr AU - Krauth-Gruber​‌, Silvia AU - Ric​‌, Francois PY - 2005/// UR - http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327957pspr0903_1 ER -