Ecology of the Body: Styles of Behavior in Human Life

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Duke University Press, 1987 - Psychology - 338 pages
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.
 

Contents

On History and Method
3
Three Styles of Behavior
45
Thinking Learning and Teaching
95
Remembering Language
133
Varieties of Individual Development
167
Forming the Body
209
Somatic Style and Art
243
Society and the Great Ecto Dream
275
Notes
313
Bibliography
321
Name Index
331
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