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Castro, P. (2025). Introduction to Part 5: possibilities of existence—making and changing subjectivities and (ancient) worlds. Social psychology and the ancient world: Methods and applications. 309-318

F. P. Castro,  "Introduction to Part 5: possibilities of existence—making and changing subjectivities and (ancient) worlds", in Social psychology and the ancient world: Methods and applications, pp. 309-318, 2025

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T2  - Social psychology and the ancient world: Methods and applications
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PY  - 2025
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AB  - This Part contains three chapters—(12) ‘How the Ancient World Learned to Sin’; (13)
‘Anchoring religious innovation: the social psychology of deification in Athens 307 BCE’;
and (14) ‘Cyrus’ learning curve: views of adolescent psychology in Xenophon’s
Cyropaedia’—all of them illuminating our understanding of the ancient world by taking
us through very different time-scopes and textual ranges. Despite these differences,
the three chapters share a common concern with two concepts that are central in
social-psychological theorising—the concepts of anchoring, essential for the first two
chapters, and cognitive dissonance—as well as an interest in neuropsychological
research, prominent in the third chapter. In this introduction, I will highlight how
anchoring is predominantly used as a how process—both in these chapters and in
social psychology in general—whereas cognitive dissonance tends to be used as a why
process, or with what we can call the ambition of explanation for prediction. However,
cognitive dissonance can also function as a how process. In those cases it powerfully
illuminates the psychosocial dimension, and is indicative of an ambition of processual
comprehension. I will briefly highlight some notable differences between the chapters,
while simultaneously substantiating this argument of mine.

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