Abstract
Can research in situated and embodied cognition inform the study of interpersonal relations like friendship? And conversely, can friendship studies from disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives inspire research in cognitive science? These are the guiding questions for this chapter. Compared to cognition in animals, human cognition is situated in environments of cultural and societal systems, so the formation of a human self as a cognitive and emotional agent is a process involving distinct levels of embodied cognition, here called animate, anthropic and societal. Analysing friendship as a social cognitive phenomenon, and bringing together observations and concepts from interdisciplinary studies of interpersonal relationships allows for a notion of relational attention to be developed. At least for some forms of friendships, the agents not merely attend to common interests; their perception is shared, mediated by the very relationship as an embodied activity of distributed cognition. An important example of this is collaboration in science and art, as when friends or colleagues work close together to solve problems or develop new forms of creative expression.
| Translated title of the contribution | At tænke med venner: : kropslig kognition og relationel opmærksomhed i venskab |
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| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | Cognitive Science: Recent Advances and Recurring Problems |
| Editors | Frederick Adams, Osvaldo Pessoa Jr. , João Eduardo Kogler Jr. |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Publisher | Vernon Press |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Pages | 47-58 |
| Chapter | 3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-62273-100-8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |