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Situating Embodied Action Within the Social and Material Sphere

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Embodied Social Cognition

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This chapter motivates and describes the framework from both historical and ‘state-of-the-art’ perspectives. The first section can be regarded as a short summary of the ideas portrayed in the previous chapters, which subsequently progresses to the final framework for the embodied nature of social interaction and cognition.

... in those sequences of interpersonal behaviour which form the greater part of our daily life, speech and action supplement each other and do each other’s work in a web of unbroken patterns.

Sapir, 1933

It is always difficult for the psychologists to think of anything ‘existing’ in a culture ... We are, alas, wedded to the idea that human reality exists within the boundary of the human skin! .

Bruner, 1966

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Lindblom, J. (2015). Situating Embodied Action Within the Social and Material Sphere. In: Embodied Social Cognition. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20315-7_6

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