Interfaces of social psychology with situated and embodied 11 cognition

19 The recent rise of interest in situated and embodied cognition has a strong interdisciplinary flavor, with contributions from 20 robotics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology, among other disciplines. However, 21 social psychology has been almost completely unrepresented. Social psychologists investigate the ways people perceive, 22 interact with, and influence each other, and this field therefore offers an ideal standpoint for the investigation of many of the 23 most central aspects and themes of the situated cognition approach—because the relevant ‘situation’ in which cognition takes 24 place is, almost always, a social situation defined by an individual’s group memberships, personal relationships, and social 25 and communicative goals. This paper briefly reviews social psychological research and theory related to five major themes of 26 situated and embodied cognition. The themes are: cognition is for action; cognition is situated (radically affected by 27 situations, and makes use of situations as resources); artifacts and situations effectively extend cognitive processes out 28 beyond the individual; cognition is embodied; and situated cognition affects and interacts with symbolically based thought. 29  2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. 30