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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791934403321

Titolo

Grounding social sciences in cognitive sciences / / edited by Ron Sun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012

©2012

ISBN

1-283-63774-X

0-262-30540-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (467 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SunRon <1960->

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Cognitive science

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; I INTRODUCTION; 1 Prolegomena to Cognitive Social Sciences; II CULTURE; 2 Mapping Minds across Cultures; 3 Cognitive Basis of Culture and Cultural Processes; 4 Egocentric and Allocentric Perspective in Cultural Models; III POLITICS; 5 Emotional Underpinnings of Political Behavior; 6 Theory and Practice in Political Discourse Research; 7 Cognition and Moral Choice; IV RELIGION; 8 Psychological Origins and Cultural Evolution of Religion; 9 Religion: From Mind to Society and Back; 10 Ritual, Cognition, and Evolution; V ECONOMICS

11 Cognitive Variables and Parameters in Economic Models 12 Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform the Social Sciences; 13 Cognitive Aging and Human Capital; VI UNIFYING PERSPECTIVES; 14 Going Cognitive: Tools for Rebuilding the Social Sciences; 15 Role of Cognitive Processes in Unifying the Behavioral Sciences; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploration of a new integrative intellectual enterprise: the cognitive social sciences.