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Handbook of Embodied Psychology

Thinking, Feeling, and Acting

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Michael D. Robinson

    1. NDSU Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA

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  2. Laura E. Thomas

    1. NDSU Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA

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  • Integrates research across psychological disciplines to form the first resource on the topic of embodiment

  • Links topical chapters to theoretical perspectives on interoception, grounded cognition, and conceptual metaphor

  • Challenges traditionally accepted ideas about perceiving, thinking and doing

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction to Embodied Psychology: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting

    • Michael D. Robinson, Laura E. Thomas
    Pages 1-19

  3. Theoretical Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Dynamic Grounding of Concepts: Implications for Emotion and Social Cognition

      • Joshua D. Davis, Seana Coulson, Andrew J. Arnold, Piotr Winkielman
      Pages 23-42

    3. Feeling, Seeing, and Liking: How Bodily Resources Inform Perception and Emotion

      • Gerald L. Clore, Dennis R. Proffitt, Jonathan R. Zadra
      Pages 43-64

    4. Interoceptive Approaches to Embodiment Research

      • André Schulz, Claus Vögele
      Pages 65-100

    5. Metaphorical Embodiment

      • Raymond W. Gibbs
      Pages 101-123

  4. Cognitive and Neuroscience Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. The Extended Mind Thesis and Its Applications

      • Mirko Farina, Sergei Levin
      Pages 127-147

    3. Measuring the Mathematical Mind: Embodied Evidence from Motor Resonance, Negative Numbers, Calculation Biases, and Emotional Priming

      • Martin H. Fischer, Arianna Felisatti, Elena Kulkova, Melinda A. Mende, Alex Miklashevsky
      Pages 149-170

    4. The Challenges of Abstract Concepts

      • Guy Dove
      Pages 171-195

    5. Abstract Concepts and Metacognition: Searching for Meaning in Self and Others

      • Anna M. Borghi, Chiara Fini, Luca Tummolini
      Pages 197-220

    6. Phonemes Convey Embodied Emotion

      • Christine S. P. Yu, Michael K. McBeath, Arthur M. Glenberg
      Pages 221-243

    7. Location, Timing, and Magnitude of Embodied Language Processing: Methods and Results

      • Claudia Gianelli, Katharina Kühne
      Pages 245-263

    8. Embodied Attention: Integrating the Body and Senses to Act in the World

      • Catherine L. Reed, Alan A. Hartley
      Pages 265-290

    9. The Role of Motor Action in Long-Term Memory for Objects

      • Diane Pecher, Fabian Wolters, René Zeelenberg
      Pages 291-309

    10. Embodied Perception and Action in Real and Virtual Environments

      • Jeanine K. Stefanucci, Morgan Saxon, Mirinda Whitaker
      Pages 311-336

  5. Social and Personality Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 337-337
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    2. Towards Theory Formalization in (Social) Embodiment: A Tutorial

      • Anna Szabelska, Olivier Dujols, Thorsten M. Erle, Alessandro Sparacio, Hans IJzerman
      Pages 339-356

    3. The 4Es and the 4As (Affect, Agency, Affordance, Autonomy) in the Meshed Architecture of Social Cognition

      • Shaun Gallagher
      Pages 357-379
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About this book

This edited volume seeks to integrate research and scholarship on the topic of embodiment, with the idea being that thinking and feeling are often grounded in more concrete representations related to perception and action. The book centers on psychological approaches to embodiment and includes chapters speaking to development as well as clinical issues, though a larger number focus on topics related to cognition and neuroscience as well as social and personality psychology. These topical chapters are linked to theory-based chapters centered on interoception, grounded cognition, conceptual metaphor, and the extended mind thesis. Further, a concluding section speaks to critical issues such as replication concerns, alternative interpretations, and future directions. The final result is a carefully conceived product that is a comprehensive and well-integrated volume on the psychology of embodiment. The primary audience for this book is academic psychologists from many different areas of psychology (e.g., social, developmental, cognitive, clinical). The secondary audience consists of disciplines in which ideas related to embodied cognition figure prominently, such as counseling, education, biology, and philosophy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • NDSU Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA

    Michael D. Robinson, Laura E. Thomas

About the editors

Michael D. Robinson is a Professor at North Dakota State University and has an extensive publication record in the areas of personality, embodiment, cognition, emotion, and self-regulation. He has also edited several books, including two in the Springer catalog.


Laura E. Thomas is an Associate Professor at North Dakota State University. Her research incorporates approaches from vision science and embodied cognition to study the ways in which action, action affordances, and social interactions affect perception and key components of cognition such as attention, memory, and problem solving.


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