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ABOUT THE BOOK

Most psychology research still assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, waiting to be expressed or activated. This compelling book illustrates that a new paradigm is forming in which contextual factors are considered central to the workings of the mind. Leading experts explore how psychological processes emerge from the transactions of individuals with their physical, social, and cultural environments. The volume showcases cutting-edge research on the contextual nature of such phenomena as gene expression, brain networks, the regulation of hormones, perception, cognition, personality, knowing, learning, and emotion.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Genes and the Brain

2. Epigenetic Inheritance, Lawrence V. Harper

3. Brain Networks and Embodiment, Olaf Sporns

4. Social Modulation of Hormones, Sari M. van Anders

II. Cognition and Affect

5. Emoting: A Contextualized Process, Batja Mesquita

6. Meaning in Context: Meta-Cognitive Experiences, Norbert Schwarz

7. Situated Cognition, Eliot R. Smith and Elizabeth C. Collins

III. The Person

8. The Situated Person, Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda

9. Implicit Independence and Interdependence: A Cultural Task Analysis, Shinobu Kitayama and Toshie Imada

10. Platonic Blindness and the Challenge of Understanding Context, Yarrow Dunham and Mahzarin R. Banaji

11. Social Tuning of Ethnic Attitudes, Stacey Sinclair and Janetta Lun

IV. Behavior

12. The Multiple Forms of "Context" in Associative Learning Theory, Mark E. Bouton

13. Threat, Marginality, and Reactions to Norm Violations, Deborah A. Prentice and Thomas E. Trail

14. Behavior as Mind in Context: A Cultural Psychology Analysis of "Paranoid" Suspicion in West African Worlds, Glen Adams, Phia S. Salter, Kate M. Pickett, Tugçe Kurtis, and Nia L. Phillips

15. Challenging the Egocentric View of Coordinated Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing, Michael J. Richardson, Kerry L. Marsh, and R. C. Schmidt

16. Conclusion: On the Vices of Nominalization and the Virtues of Contextualizing, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Christine D. Wilson, and Wendy Hasenkamp