Ecology of the Body: Styles of Behavior in Human Life

Lyons, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0822307103 / ISBN 13: 9780822307105

Published by Duke University Press, 1987

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Synopsis:

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.

From the Back Cover: "Ground breaking, extensive in scope, well written, based on sound scholarship and introducing a perspective in psychology that is long overdue."--Amedeo Giorgi

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ecology of the Body: Styles of Behavior in ...
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good