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A Radical Reassessment of the Body in Social Cognition
University of Skövde, School of Informatics. University of Skövde, Informatics Research Environment. (Interaction Lab (ILAB))ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0946-7531
2020 (English)In: Frontiers in Psychology, E-ISSN 1664-1078, Vol. 11, article id 987Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The main issue addressed in this paper is to provide a reassessment of the role and relevance of the body in social cognition from a radical embodied cognitive science perspective. Initially, I provide a historical introduction of the traditional account of the body in cognitive science, which I here call the cognitivist view. I then present several lines of criticism raised against the cognitivist view advanced by more embodied, enacted and situated approaches in cognitive science, and related disciplines. Next, I analyze several approaches under the umbrella of embodied social cognition. My line of argument is that some of these approaches, although pointing toward the right direction of conceiving that the social mind is not merely contained inside the head, still fail to fully acknowledge the radically embodied social mind. I argue that the failure of these accounts of embodied social cognition could be associated with so-called ‘simple embodiment.’ The third part of this paper focuses on elaborating an alternative characterization of the radically embodied social mind that also tries to reduce the remaining problems with ‘simple embodiment.’ I draw upon two turns in radically embodied cognitive science, the enactive turn, and the intersubjective turn. On the one hand, there is the risk of focusing too much on the individual level in social cognition that may result in new kinds of methodological individualism that partly neglect the social dimension. On the other hand, socially distributed and socially extended approaches that pay more attention to the dynamics within social interaction may encounter the risk of ignoring the individual during social interaction dynamics and simultaneously not emphasizing the role of embodiment. The approach taken is to consider several ways of describing and incorporating the (individual) social mind at the social level that includes language. I outline some ideas and motivations for how to study and expand the field of radical embodied social cognition in the future, as well as pose the ubiquitous hazard of falling back into a cognitivism view in several ways.

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Frontiers Media S.A., 2020. Vol. 11, article id 987
Keywords [en]
embodied cognition, radical embodiment, social cognition, social interaction, sense-making
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Interaction Technologies
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INF302 Autonomous Intelligent Systems; Interaction Lab (ILAB)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18493DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00987ISI: 000542992900001PubMedID: 32581915Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85086782139OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-18493DiVA, id: diva2:1436699
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SIDUS AIR, Action and intention recognition in human interaction with autonomous systems, funded by the Knowledge Foundation, Stockholm, under SIDUS grant agreement no. 20140220
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Knowledge Foundation, 20140220Available from: 2020-06-08 Created: 2020-06-08 Last updated: 2022-02-10Bibliographically approved

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