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The self-field : mind, body and environment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abel, Chris (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge research in psychology.
Subjects:
Self.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • <P>Preface </P><P><STRONG>Introduction </STRONG></P><P><STRONG>PART I: The background</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>1. The nature-nurture debate</STRONG> </P><P>Personality traits
  • Cognitive abilities
  • Epigenetic factors
  • Gene regulation
  • New terms of debate
  • Neural plasticity
  • Embodied development </P><B><P>2. Inheritance systems </P></B><P>Evo-Devo
  • Homological thinking
  • Niche construction
  • Sociocultural learning
  • Cooperative behavior
  • Gene-culture coevolution
  • Interacting dimensions
  • Novel behavior</P><B><P>PART II: The metatheory</P><P>3. Self-organization </P></B><P>Order of a complex sort
  • Hierarchical model
  • Emergentism
  • Strong versus weak emergence
  • Levels of description
  • Autopoiesis
  • Structure and organization
  • Diachronic emergence</P><B><P>4. The invisible self </P></B><P>Science and common sense
  • The self that won't go away
  • Psychological connectedness
  • Field theory
  • Boundary conditions
  • Social dimensions
  • The self as a self-organizing system
  • Some propositions </P><B><P>5. Mapping the field </P></B><P>Brain-body schemas
  • Spatial extensions
  • Unity of perception and action
  • Social cues
  • Self-agency
  • Mirror images
  • Emotional signals
  • Self-regulation of emotions</P><B><P>6. The evolving self </P></B><P>Metamorphosis
  • Memory and consciousness
  • Knowing and feeling
  • The three-stage self
  • The core-self across species
  • Evolutionary continuity
  • Subjective experience
  • The cultural ratchet</P><B><P>7. Tacit nexus </P></B><P>Overlapping brain functions
  • Stringing things together
  • Rapid sequencing -Practical intelligence
  • Dexterous hands
  • Science and praxis
  • Artifactual knowledge</P><B><P>PART III: The self in the world</P><P>8. Technically extended selves </P></B><P>Nature's home builders
  • Animal tool use
  • Knowledge in common
  • Cumulative technology
  • Artificial versus natural selection
  • Self-producing technologies
  • Promethean gifts </P><B><P>9. Self-images </P></B><P>Good impressions
  • Bodily idioms <B>- </B>Reciprocal perspectives<B>
  • </B>Home-making as self-actualization
  • Attachments to things
  • Material culture matters
  • Fashion conscious
  • Automania</P><B><P>10. Self and group identity </P></B><P>Tribal ties
  • Discomfort with inconsistent beliefs
  • Self and the out-group other
  • Group dynamics
  • Sectarian conflict
  • Effects of spatial segregation </P><B><P>11. Occupational identity </P></B><P>Creation of a modern workforce
  • Class division and unionization
  • Fordism
  • Automation
  • The vanishing workplace
  • The encroachment of AI
  • Social groups most affected</P><B><P>12. Selves online </P></B><P>Cultivating the narcissistic personality
  • Bidirectional media
  • Hooked on the Internet
  • Games designed to keep players playing
  • The networked self
  • Promoting the self </P><B><P>13. Transformations</B> </P><P>Turning points
  • Perpetual connectivity
  • Treating people as objects
  • Cultural shift
  • The threat to critical thinking
  • Rewiring the brain
  • Augmented reality</P><B><P>14. Loss of the private self </P></B><P>A cautionary tale of the digital age
  • Mining the data
  • Engineering social change
  • Winning tactics
  • Selves for sale
  • The fightback</P><B><P>Part IV: Summation</P><P>15. Instinctive and fuzzy selves </P></B><P>Resistance to change
  • Not just a collection of neurons
  • Relations of degree
  • Techno-cultural coevolution
  • The profligate species<B> </B>- Existential crisis</P><B><P>Pandemic postscript </P><P>Notes and references</P><P>Bibliography </P><P>Index</P></B>