Projekt

In this project the philosophical differentiation between non-conceptual, conceptual, and propositional self-representations will be applied to refine the definition of self-construals as used in cross-cultural and social psychology. The psychological distinction between independent and interdependent self-construals originates from cross-cultural differences and has been shown to differentially impact individual cognition and behaviour. The different types of self-construals will be examined for the domain of emotions,referring to the distinction between basic universal emotions like fear,and on secondary cognitive emotions like shame, which presuppose certain cognitive capacities such as a concept of the self. The main questions will be (a) which particular aspects of emotion processing are non-propositional and which aspects are affected by cultural affiliation? (b) Are there differences in the emotions themselves in respect to different levels of representation, such that secondary cognitive emotions are culturally variant, while basic emotions are not? Altogether it is planned to revise the conception of the self from a multidisciplinary perspective including the development of new experimental paragdigms.

• Dr. Anne Springer

  Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions-
  und Neurowissenschaften
  Standort Leipzig
  Abt. für Psychologie
  Leipzig
  

• Dr. Tobias Schlicht

  Universität Bochum
  Institut für Philosophie - GA3
  Bochum
  

• Dr. Gottfried Vosgerau

  Universität Bochum
  Fakultät f. Philosophie u. Erziehungswissenschaft
  Institut für Philosophie
  Bochum
  

• Dr. Kirsten Gesine Volz

  Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische
  Forschung
  Arbeitsgruppe Morphometrie und Kognition
  Köln
  

• Dr. Leonhard Schilbach

  Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische
  Forschung
  mit Klaus-Joachim-Zülch-Laboratorien der
  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und der medizinischen
  Fakultät der Universität zu Köln
  Köln
  

• Dr. Daniela Simon

  Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
  Institut für Psychologie
  Berlin
  

• Alexandra Zinck

  Universität Tübingen
  Philosophisches Seminar
  Tübingen
  

• Dipl.-Psych. Martin Schmidt-Daffy

  Technische Universität Berlin
  Bio-Neuropsychologie FR 3-8
  Berlin