Social Psychology and the Body

2013 ◽  
pp. 191-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Body

scholarly journals Social and Contextual Constraints on Embodied Perception

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Schnall
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Embodied Perception ◽  
Demand Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychological Influences ◽  
Underlying Processes

A number of papers have challenged research on physiological and psychological influences on perception by claiming to show that such findings can be explained by nonperceptual factors such as demand characteristics. Relatedly, calls for separating perception from judgment have been issued. However, such efforts fail to consider key processes known to shape judgment processes: people’s inability to report accurately on their judgments, conversational dynamics of experimental research contexts, and misattribution and discounting processes. Indeed, the fact that initially observed effects of embodied influences disappear is predicted by an extensive amount of literature on judgments studied within social psychology. Thus, findings from such studies suggest that the initially presumed underlying processes are at work—namely, functional considerations that are informative in the context of preparing the body for action. In this article, I provide suggestions on how to conduct research on perception within the social constraints of experimental contexts.

scholarly journals Ecologizing Social Psychology: The Physical Environment as a Necessary Constituent of Social Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Meagher
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Body ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Recent Trends

Recent trends in social psychology point to increased interest in extending current theories by better incorporating the body (e.g., embodied cognition) and the broader interpersonal context (e.g., situations). However, despite being a critical component in early social theorizing, the physical environment remains in large part underdeveloped in most research programs. In this article, I outline an ecological framework for understanding the person–environment relationship. After introducing this perspective, I describe how this approach helps reveal the critical role played by the physical environment in a variety of social processes, including childhood development, interpersonal relationships, and social identity. Finally, I review a topic in environmental psychology that has received little attention among social psychologists: territories. I provide an ecological perspective on how the design, use, and personalization of this type of environment guide and constrain regulatory processes involving social behavior, identity expression, and emotional experience.

Effects of Aerobic Exercise on the Social Physique Anxiety and Body Esteem of Female College Students

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P. Bartlewski
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
College Students ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Aerobic Exercise ◽  
Body Esteem ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Social Physique Anxiety ◽  
Female College ◽  
Psychology Course

The purpose of this research was to explore the effectiveness of exercise in reducing body image concerns of female college students. Women enrolled in an aerobic exercise course or in a social psychology course at a medium sized university reported their social physique anxiety and body esteem at the beginning and end of the semester. For women in the aerobic exercise classes, social physique anxiety decreased and body esteem increased over the course of the semester. Social physique anxiety and body esteem did not change significantly for those in the (nonexercising) social psychology classes. The researchers concluded that participation in aerobic exercise programs may help to improve the body image of female college students. Based upon these results further investigation of the mechanisms by which exercise influences body image is warranted.

Psicologia Social, Representações Sociais e AIDS

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Cristiano Domingues da Silva ◽  
Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Magalhães Júnior ◽  
Jaqueline Feltrin Inada
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Immune Deficiency Syndrome ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hiv Aids

Apesar das inúmeras campanhas de prevenção, a Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida (AIDS) ainda se constitui um grave problema de saúde pública. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo investigar as representações sociais do HIV/AIDS e, assim, contribuir para o tratamento psicológico desses pacientes. Foi realizada uma revisão da literatura, com levantamento bibliográfico, abordando as discussões de autores da psicologia social, entre outros, a respeito do HIV/AIDS. A AIDS é uma enfermidade que marca intensamente quem a vivencia, uma vez que afeta não apenas o corporal do sujeito, mas as demais esferas da sua vida, envolvendo, muitas vezes, sentimentos negativos, tais como: a tristeza, o desejo de morte, a angústia, entre outros, que refletem no seu bem-estar mental, físico, afetivo e social. A infecção pelo HIV estabelece uma cadeia de cuidados a serem desempenhados pelas pessoas portadoras, como consultas frequentes, realização de exames laboratoriais especiais, o uso de medicamentos e mudanças na vida social que, muitas vezes, causam dificuldades que propiciam e implicam cuidados especializados em saúde mental. Atualmente, não existe uma cura para essa doença, apenas tratamento paliativo como: uso de medicamentos, tratamento com psicólogo, tratamento com psiquiatra, entre outros.Palavras-chave: HIV/AIDS. Psicologia Social. Representação Social.AbstractDespite the several prevention campaigns, AIDS remains a serious public health problem. This study aims to investigate the social representations of HIV/AIDS and thereby contribute to the psychological treatment of these patients. A bibliographic review was performed showing the themes discussed about the social psychology according to the view of many authors, concerning the HIV/AIDS. The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is an illness that marks intensely those who experience it, since it affects not only the body of the individual, but the other spheres of his or her life, involving often negative feelings such as sadness, death desire , anguish, among others, reflecting on his or her mental, physical, emotional and social well-being. HIV infection establishes a chain of care to be taken by people with this illness, such as frequent consultations, conducting special laboratory tests, medication use and changes in social life that often cause difficulties that require mental health care specialist. Currently, there is no cure for this disease, only palliative treatment such as use of drugs, treatment with a psychologist, psychiatrist treatment, among others.Keywords: HIV/AIDS. Social Psychology. Social Representation.

Beyond Two Minds: Cognitive, Embodied, and Evaluative Processes in Creativity

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanina Leschziner ◽  
Gordon Brett
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Analytical Thinking ◽  
Evaluative Processes ◽  
And Control

Scholars in sociology and social psychology typically represent creativity as an imaginative and deliberate mental activity. Such a perspective has led to a view of creativity as disconnected from the body and the senses as well as from nonanalytic cognition. In this article, we demonstrate that creativity is more grounded in bodily and sensory experience and more reliant on a combination of cognitive processes than has been typically recognized. We use literature on social cognition and embodiment to build our arguments, specifically, the embodied simulation perspective and tripartite process models. We draw from data on elite chefs to show how actors rely on embodied simulations, continually switch between heuristic and analytical thinking, and monitor and control their cognitive processing during the creative process. We outline the implications of this study for the understanding of creativity and extant models of cognition and action more generally.

Heading South! Importing Discourse Analysis

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Painter ◽  
Wilhelmina H. Theron
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Understanding ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Theoretical System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Conduct

Postmodern critiques problematise the import of social psychology into non-western contexts on epistemological and ideological grounds. Yet, British approaches to the discipline remain popular with critical social psychologists in South Africa. One such import product is discourse analysis, which, as a “postmodern” social psychology, seemingly resolves challenges of “intellectual colonialism” by endorsing a constructionist understanding of social psychological phenomena. However, by extending a conception of language into a discursive ontology enables only a partial social psychological understanding of the often insidious nature of experience and social conduct even when discourses change. What is required is an understanding of these aspects of social agency as also pre-reflexively and non-propositionally patterned, making necessary a conception of culture that works, so to speak, directly on the body. This remains impossible in a theoretical system that has to fall back on the notions of reflexivity and ideology in order to explain the social and political determination of experience and meaningful conduct.

Gripping Stuff: A Response to Kevin Durrheim

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Painter ◽  
Wilhelmina H. Theron
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Form

In this response to Kevin Durrheim we argue that he misrepresents some of our arguments by Implying that talk of pre-reflexive patterning of social form and experience and the role of the body in this suggests biological and cultural essentialism. He further overstates the consensus amongst discursive social psychologists and social constructionists on these matters, as we briefly show in relation to the problem of the body in social psychology.

The Body and Social Psychology.

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Arthur W. Frank ◽  
Alan Radley
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Body

scholarly journals Body, Beauty, and Death in an Andean Context: A Self-Ethnographic Narration

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-105
Author(s):  
Jimena Silva Segovia
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Reflective Processes ◽  
Andean Culture

With this article I seek to build bridges between the different narrative elements where the body is situated as a central language, of experiences as a researcher in socio-cultural contexts of Bolivian indigenous peoples in the years 1984 and 1998. In this biographical period I have lived different reflective processes, frustrations, and successes that can contribute to an understanding of the framework of gender, ethnic, and political relations. This text, auto-ethnographic, enables us to see the deconstruction and subjective transformations in an androcentric context of a traditional Andean culture, as well as the investigative awareness achieved during interactions in the field. In my field work I have used tools from different disciplines (anthropology, sociology, social psychology), that are useful for validating the autoethnography as a methodological model to the gender autonomy, listening and learning the different ways of understanding corporal discourses. That is, I wish to recognize the value of various types of production and interpretation of knowledge, such as narration, arts, literature, film, and photography that favors emancipation of the peoples and their inhabitants.

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