Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781107025844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 226 str.

Yair Neuman

Opis

Human psychology is deeply rooted in the culture in which people live. Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology introduces a revolutionary approach for studying cultural psychology. Drawing on novel computational tools and in-depth case studies, Professor Yair Neuman offers thought-provoking answers to questions such as: how are thought and language deeply related? How can computers help us to understand different cultures? How can computers assist military intelligence in identifying vengeful intentions? And how is our concept of 'love' rooted in our basic embodied experience? Written by a leading interdisciplinary researcher this book is a "tour-de-force" which will be of interest to a variety of researchers, students and practitioners in psychology as well as an interdisciplinary audience with an interest in the intricate web weaved between the human psyche and its cultural context.

Recenzje

'Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology advances the field beyond the thinking of other merely applied paradigm of computational thinking of social science, which could only mediate at best between tools of computational science and its target application the social domain, which is inherently complex. Neuman's brilliant and innovative thinking moves the reader towards a new and comprehensive paradigm on computational cultural psychology - one that allows the field and readers to think and understand computational cultural psychology as a meaning-making system. In doing so, and by the many situational and rich cultural examples, he seduces the reader towards a focus of on the semiotically mediated nature of meaning and system-like thinking of such complex phenomenon of thought in the human mind. This is brilliant and well-articulated must-read for scholars and readers of all level on culture linguistics and computational studies.' Newton Howard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spis treści

1. What is computational cultural psychology?; 2. The digital psychologist: information technology and cultural psychology; 3. Why don't primates have God? Language and the abstraction of thought; 4. Lost in translation: how to use automatic translation machines for understanding 'otherness'; 5. Spies and metaphors: automatic identification of metaphors for strategic intelligence; 6. Scent of a woman: the mediation of smell and automatic analysis of extended senses; 7. Dolly Parton's love lexicon: detection of motifs in cultural texts; 8. The relational matrix of the I; 9. Identifying themes: from the Wingfield family to Harry and Sally; 10. Eating and dining: studying the dynamics of dinner; 11. Getting even: the cultural psychology of revenge and what computers can do about it; Epilogue. On generals and mail coach drivers.