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Empirical Work

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Embodied Social Cognition

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This chapter concerns the empirical part of the book. The first section describes and motivates the research design of the empirical work. The following sections and their subsections describe the conducted case study in different social situations in which different aspects of embodied actions of socially interactive cognition are the focus of analysis. The case study also offers unforeseen empirical findings of embodied actions within socially interacting and cognition. The chapter ends with a discussion and some conclusions concerning the synthesis of the theoretical and empirical work.

Sometimes the most obvious things are hardest to see because they are right in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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Lindblom, J. (2015). Empirical Work. In: Embodied Social Cognition. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20315-7_7

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