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Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion
Paula M. Niedenthal
Laboratory in Social and Cognitive Psychology, CNRS and University of Clermont-Ferrand, France
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Department of Psychology, Emory University
Piotr Winkielman
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Silvia Krauth-Gruber
François Ric
Laboratory in Social Psychology, Université René, Descartes, Paris
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.
Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 9, No. 3,
184-211 (2005)
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0903_1

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