Ecology of the Body: Styles of Behavior in Human Life

Author:   Joseph Lyons
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9780822307105


Pages:   355
Publication Date:   14 August 1987
Format:   Hardback
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Ecology of the Body: Styles of Behavior in Human Life


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Ecology of the Body presents an argument for describing our behavior in accordance with the ways we experience our bodies. Increasingly, psychologists are recognizing that human beings show great diversity in the ways they perform the vast repertoire of human behaviors-such as perceiving, reasoning, remembering, forgetting-that we may well possess not simply different levels of ""intelligence"" but also different forms of it in varying combinations, just as we show differing degrees of emotion, goal-directed activity, and creativity. Lyons puts forward a hypothesis in which he argues for the utility of understanding these differences as stylistic variations that are inseparable from our physical experience of ourselves.

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Author:   Joseph Lyons
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
ISBN:  

9780822307105


ISBN 10:   0822307103
Pages:   355
Publication Date:   14 August 1987
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface ix Part One. Behavioral Styles: A Hypothesis 1. On History and Method 3 2. Three Styles of Behavior 45 Part Two. Applying the Hypothesis to Topics in Psychology 3. Thinking, Learning, and Teaching 95 4. Remembering Language 133 5. Varieties of Individual Development 167 6. Forming the Body 209 Part Three. Applying the Hypothesis to Issues of Culture 7. Somatic Style and Art 243 8. Society and the Great Ecto Dream 275 Notes 313 Bibliography 321 Name Index 331 Subject Index 335

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