BISAC SubjectsPSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology

Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity

Edited by Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa

Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature… read more

[Not in series, 186] 2014. vii, 393 pp.

Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking

Edited by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile

Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called ‘multitasking’ – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking… read more

[Not in series, 187] 2014. vii, 289 pp.

Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication

Edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp

Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans. It offers an alternative to established theories of human communication and also has important implications for human-machine… read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 6] 2013. viii, 231 pp.

Roots and Collapse of Empathy: Human nature at its best and at its worst

Stein Bråten

Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature. It begins with infant roots of empathy, then turns to the… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 91] 2013. xv, 276 pp.

Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness

Edited by Fabio Paglieri

Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] 2012. xix, 403 pp.

Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context

Edited by Petra Hauf and Friedrich Försterling

Social stimuli are important proximate determinants of human thought, action, and behaviour. But does the social environment also have deeper, profounder, and possibly more distal impact on more lasting psychological structures and forms, generalizing across time and domains, such as traits,… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 4] 2007. ix, 275 pp.