Psychological Processes

Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to explain how action involves varied psychological processes, including thinking, feeling, self/identity, interacting, and sensing and perceiving. It is explained that different ways of acting involve different ways of structuring varied psychological processes. Moreover, different ways of structuring psychological processes emerge through individual, social, cultural, bodily, and environmental processes. In this chapter, thinking, feeling, self/identity, sensing and perceiving, and interacting are conceptualized as active processes that people do, and each process is explained in relation to individual, social, cultural, bodily, and environmental processes. Varied empirical and everyday examples are used to illustrate major concepts and claims.