Academic Interests
- Sociology and psychology of communication, development and language acquisition
- Computer simulation and empirical studies of communication nets and dialogical systems
- Systems theory and cybernetics
- Semantics (social oriented) and symbolic interaction
- Main areas of interest include:
- paradigmatic shift in the view of the nature of human infants; criticism of Freudian and Piagetian views
- altercentric mirroring by infants and conversational partners; neurosocial support
- the dialogical nature of mind; criticism of monadological approaches (autopoiesis and AI)
- conditions for dialogue in science and in the internet society
- empathological collapse: what makes people without pathological traits servants of extinction?
- roots of empathy, altruism, and morality
Background
- Academic degrees: Mag.art. in sociology, University of Oslo 1967, Dr.philos in psychology, University of Bergen 1989
- Successively assistant, account executive, vice president, Forenede Annonsebyråer AS, Oslo, 1956-64
- Research assistant (part time) for professor Arne Næss, University of Oslo, 1964
- Assistant lecturer in logic, University of Oslo, 1963-66
- Research director and head of Institute of Market and Societal Communication IMAS, Solna 1967-71
- Research (recruitment) fellow at Norwegian Research Foundation NAVF 1970-71 (part time)
- Research fellow in social psychology at Dept of psycology, University of Bergen, 1971-73
- Professor of Sociology, Dept of Sociology, University of Oslo 1973-2004 (chairman of the board of 1973-76)
- Guest Professor in Information psychology (Cognitive Science, Dept.cognitive psych.,U Bergen 1987-89
- Consulting Scientist, Bergen Scientific Centre IBM, University of Bergen (part time)1988-89
- Chair of the council for the Centre of clinical and psychological research, U of Oslo 1985-94
- Founder and chair of Theory Forum Network on the Foundations of (Pre)verbal Intersubjectivity 1990 -
- Head of a Theory Forum research group at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Oslo, 1996-97
- Member of research group etc. at Centre for interdisciplinary research (ZiF), U Bielefeld 1997-98
- Member of research group on decision making under uncertainty (stochastic models)at CAS 2000-01
- Professor Emeritus, Dept of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, 2004 -
- Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1993 -
- Associated member, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1993 -
- Have been a member of the boards the Norwegian Computing Centre, of the State Institute for Alcohol Research, and of the National Library Council.
- Have been a co-editor of the Klüwer book series Frontiers in systems resarch: Implications for the social sciences, and a member of the editorial boards of international yearbooks in systens research, of International Journal of General Systems, of Sosiologisk tidsskrift/Journal of Sociology, and Consulting Editor of Acta Sociologica.
Awards
- Tano Aschehoug Award 1996 for his textbook on Communication from birth to old age
- Norwegian Sociological Association Honarary Prize 2006
Tags:
Sociology
Publications
Recent book and collective volumes in English and some seminal papers
- Bråten, Stein (2009) The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009 (ISBN 97890227252128 (Hardback), ISBN 978 90 272 8923 0 (EB).
- Bråten, Stein & Daniel Stern (2008) Communication and Relations: On altercentric movements and layers of the present. Video-recorded one-day-lectures, University College Lillebælt, Odense, April 4, 2007. (www.waageproductions.com).
- Bråten, Stein & Trevarthen, Colwyn (2007) Prologue: From infant intersubjectivity and participant movements to simulation and conversation. In Bråten, Stein (ed. 2007) On Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007: 21-34
- Bråten, Stein (ed. 2007) On Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007 (ISBN 987 90 272 5204 3)
- Bråten, Stein & Gallese, Vittorio (2004) On mirror neurons systems implications for social cognition and intersubjectivity). Interview by the editors of Impuls 58 (3) (brain issue) ISSN 081-2911, pp.97-107.
- Bråten, Stein (2003) The other-oriented nature and nurture of the self-organizing mind. Opening keynote lecture at The 11th International Conference on Educational Therapy, Lillehammer June 3-5 2002. In The Resilient Child, Proceedings ed. by A.Arnesen. Oslo:The Norwegian Educational Therapist Assoc 2003 pp.11-29.
- Bråten, Stein (2003) Im Gegensatz zur Piagets Theorie. Spracherwerb und Sprachentwicklung, In N. Psarros, P. Stekeler-Weithofer & G. Vobruba (eds.) Die Entwicklung sozialer Wirklichkeit, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2003 (ISBN 3-934730-85-5) pp.61-88.
- Bråten, Stein (ed. 1998) Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998 (ISBN 0-521-62257-3) (paper back 2006 (ISBN -10-0-521-02989-9)
- Bråten, Stein (1998) Infant learning by altercentric participation: the reverse of egocentric observation in autism, in: S. Bråten (ed.) Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998: 105-24.
- Bråten, Stein (1996) Paradigm shift in infant research which offers a new view of human nature. CAS Newsletter no. 2, Nov. 1996 (Interview by the editor Dag Herbjörnsröd), Centre for Advanced Study at The Norwegian Academy of Science, Oslo (ISSN 0804-3272) pp.1-3
- Bråten, Stein (1988) Between dialogical mind and monological reason: Postulating the Virtual Other. I: M. Campanella (red.) Between Rationality and Cognition. Torino/Geneve: Albert Meynier 1988 (ISBN 88-85225-66-4), pp.205-236
- Bråten, Stein (1984) The Third Position – beyond Artificial and Autopoietic Reduction. Kybernetes vol.3: 157-163
- Bråten, Stein (1973) Model Monopoly and Communication: Systems Theoretical Notes on Democratization. Acta Sociologica, vol,16, 1973 no.2, s. 98-107.
- Bråten, Stein (1968) A simulation study of personal and mass communication. IAG Quarterly Journal of the Administrative Data Processing Group of IFIP, 1968, vol.1, no.2, pp.7-28
On earlier publications, working papers and some essays and invited keynote lectures, see www.stein-braten.com.
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Misund, Aud R.; Bråten, Stein Leif; Nerdrum, Per; Pripp, Are Hugo & Diseth, Trond H
(2016).
A Norwegian prospective study of
preterm mother–infant interactions at
6 and 18 months and the impact of
maternal mental health problems,
pregnancy and birth complications.
BMJ Open.
6(e009699).
doi:
10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009699.
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Objective: Pregnancy, birth and health complications, maternal mental health problems following preterm birth and their possible impact on early mother – infant interaction at 6 and 18 months corrected age (CA) were explored. Predictors of mother – infant interaction at 18 months CA were identified. Design and methods: This prospective longitudinal and observational study included 33 preterm mother – infant (<33 gestational age (GA)) interactions at 6 and 18 months CA from a socioeconomic low-risk, middle- class sample. The Parent – Child Early Relational Assessment (PCERA) scale was used to assess the mother – infant interaction. Results: ‘ Bleeding in pregnancy ’ predicted lower quality in preterm mother – infant interaction in 6 PCERA scales, while high ‘ maternal trait anxiety ’ predicted higher interactional quality in 2 PCERA scales and ‘ family size ’ predicted lower interactional quality in 1 PCERA scale at 18 months CA. Mothers with symptoms of post- traumatic stress reactions, general psychological distress and anxiety at 2 weeks postpartum (PP) showed significantly better outcome than mothers without symptoms in 6 PCERA subscales at 6 months CA and 2 PCERA subscales at 18 months CA. Conclusions: Our study detected a correspondence between early pregnancy complications and lower quality of preterm mother – infant interaction, and an association between high levels of maternal mental health problems and better quality in preterm mother – infant interaction.
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Misund, Aud R.; Nerdrum, Per; Bråten, Stein Leif; Pripp, Are Hugo & Diseth, Trond H
(2013).
Long-term risk of mental health problems in women experiencing preterm birth: a longitudinal study of 29 mothers.
Annals of General Psychiatry.
12:33.
doi:
10.1186/1744-859X-12-33.
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Background: Several studies have reported significantly higher stress levels, both short and long terms, among mothers giving preterm birth compared with mothers giving birth at term. Stress, however, is a psychological phenomenon that may present as anxiety, depression and/or trauma reactions. In this study, the long-term mental health outcomes and the prevalence of anxiety, depression and trauma reactions in women experiencing preterm birth were explored. Interactional, main effect variables and predictors were identified. Methods: Twenty-nine mothers of 35 premature children born before the 33rd week of pregnancy were assessed within 2 weeks postpartum (T0), 2 weeks after hospitalization (T1), 6 months post-term (T2), and 18 months post-term (T3). The standardized psychometric methods Impact of Event Scale (IES), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and State Anxiety Inventory (STAI-X1) assessed the maternal mental health outcomes. Results: The maternal mental health problems except state anxiety decreased from T0 to T1, but remained high and stable at T3. The prevalence of posttraumatic stress reactions (PTSR) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at T0 and T3 was 52% and 23%, respectively. We identified the time period between T0 and T1 to have a significant main effect on mental health outcomes. The predictors of higher levels of mental health problems were preeclampsia, previous psychological treatment, age, trait anxiety and infant's postnatal intraventricular haemorrhage. Bleeding in pregnancy predicted lower levels of mental health problems. Conclusions: The prevalence of maternal mental health problems remained high, emphasizing the importance of effective interventions
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(2012).
Når den som snakker nøler - hva gjør lytteren? : setningsutfylling og altersentrisk deltaking.
Sosiologi i dag.
ISSN 0332-6330.
42(1),
p. 57–79.
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(2011).
Intersubjective participation: Virtual other movements in infants and adults.
Psyche - Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen.
ISSN 0033-2623.
65(9-10),
p. 832–861.
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Bråten, Stein
(2010).
I begynnelsen: Fra nyfødt-imitering og altersentrisk deltagelse.
In Moe, Vibeke; Slinning, Kari & Hansen, Marit Bergum (Ed.),
Håndbok i sped- og småbarns psykiske helse.
Gyldendal Akademisk.
ISSN 9788205390713.
p. 92–115.
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Bråten, Stein
(2010).
Åpner Luhmanns autopoiesisteori for lukkede trekk ved totalitære systemer?
In Hilt, Line; Venneslan, Knut & Vik, Bjørnar Mortensen (Ed.),
Luhmann og magt.
Unge Pædagoger.
ISSN 9788790220747.
p. 121–143.
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Vik, Kari & Bråten, Stein Leif
(2009).
Video interaction guidance inviting transcendence of postpartum depressed mothers' self-centered state and holding behavior.
Infant Mental Health Journal.
ISSN 0163-9641.
30(3),
p. 287–300.
doi:
10.1002/imhj.20215.
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(2008).
Intersubjective Enactment by Virtue of Altercentric Participation Supported by a Mirror System in Infant and Adult.
Emerging Communication: Studies in New Technologies and Practices in Communication.
ISSN 1566-7677.
10,
p. 133–147.
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Abstract: Human newborns demonstrate a readiness to mirror facial expressions and gestures, and both infants and adults frequently manifest their participant mirroring of what their companions are doing - to be illustrated and explained in this chapter. Sometimes they imitate or re-enact what they have seen being done. Sometimes they concurrently co-enact what the companion is doing as if they were virtual co-authors of the companion's doing, and sometimes they pre-enact slightly in advance what the companion is about to do or say as if coming to the companion's virtual aid, for example when spectators at a sports arena lift their legs as the high-jumper is about to jump, or when the spoon-feeder opens own mouth as the spoon is pushed into the opening mouth of the patient. Illustrations will be offered of infants who reciprocate feeding or even spoon-feeding, before their first year's birthday, thus demonstrating their learning by imitative re-enactment by virtue of participant perception of their feeders' acts of feeding. The above and other illustrations of participant perception are specified in terms of the inborn capacity for other-centred participation, and indicated to be supported by a mirror neurons system adapted in hominin phylogeny to subserve learning to cope and take care by (m)other-centred participation. This facilitates the ontogenetic path to speech in the culture into which the infant is born and will be shown to open a window to altruism in young children, exemplified by some three-year old orphans. The ontogenetic path from primary to tertiary intersubjective enactment is specified to go by way of embodied simulation to verbal conversation with its reciprocal and participant characteristics by virtue of simulation of mind.
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Bråten, Stein
(2007).
Om deltagende læring gennem andencentreret spejling. Implikationer af nyere forskningsresultater om spædbørn og opdagelsen af spejlneuroner.
Kognition & Pædagogik.
ISSN 0906-6225.
17(65),
p. 6–22.
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Bråten, Stein
(2007).
Altercentric infants and adults: On the origins and manifestations of participant perception of other's acts and utterances.
In Bråten, Stein (Eds.),
On Being Moved. From Mirror Neurons to Empathy.
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
ISSN 9789027252043.
p. 111–135.
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Bråten, Stein & Colwyn, Trevarthen
(2007).
Prologue: From infant intersubjectivity and participant movements to simulation and conversation in cultural common sense.
In Bråten, Stein (Eds.),
On Being Moved. From Mirror Neurons to Empathy.
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
ISSN 9789027252043.
p. 21–33.
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Bråten, Stein
(2007).
Lukket for dialog og delaktig læring? Kritikk av Luhmanns (gjen)dannelsesteori.
In Paulsen, Michael & Qvortrup, Lars (Ed.),
Luhmann og dannelse.
Unge Pædagoger.
ISSN 9788790220181.
p. 29–53.
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Bråten, Stein
(2006).
Andencentreret deltagelse - fra vuggen til klasseværelset. Om en basal relationskompetence i læring og samvær.
In Kristensen, René (Eds.),
Fantastiske forbindelser - relationer i undervisning og læringssamvær.
Dafolo Forlag.
ISSN 9788772811864.
p. 12–24.
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Bråten, Stein
(2004).
On Daniel Stern: The present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life.
Impuls : Tidsskrift for psykologi.
ISSN 0801-2911.
p. 143–145.
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Bråten, Stein & Gallese, Vittorio
(2004).
On mirror neurons system implications for social cognition and intersubjectivity.
Impuls : Tidsskrift for psykologi.
ISSN 0801-2911.
p. 97–107.
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Bråten, Stein
(2004).
On the foundations of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity: Introduction to a symposium in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Impuls : Tidsskrift for psykologi.
ISSN 0801-2911.
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Bråten, Stein
(2004).
Hominin infant decentration hypothesis: Mirror neurons system adapted to subserve mother-centered participation.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
ISSN 0140-525X.
27(4),
p. 508–509.
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Bråten, Stein
(2000).
G.H.Meads filosofi som grundlag for dialogisk forståelse.
In Thuen, Harald & Vaage, Sveinung (Ed.),
Opdragelse til det moderne.
Forlaget Klim, Århus.
ISSN 9788777249358.
p. 107–132.
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Bråten, Stein
(2000).
Dialog med spedbarn - som også viser omsorg.
In Kulturredaksjonen, NRK (Eds.),
P2 - Akademiet N.
NRK 2 Kulturkanalen.
ISSN 9788271182618.
p. 35–49.
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Bråten, Stein
(1998).
Infant learning by altercentric participation: the reverse of egocentric observation in autism.
In Bråten, Stein (Eds.),
Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny.
Cambridge University Press.
ISSN 9780521622578.
p. 105–124.
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(1997).
Sverre Holm - post mortem i anledning Norsk Sosiologforenings hederspris.
Sosiolog-nytt.
ISSN 0333-3205.
1,
p. 59–65.
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(1997).
Altercentriskt deltagende som förklaring till att spädbarn kan ge omsorg.
In Isenberg, I.B. & Oddner, F. (Ed.),
Seendets pendel. Festskrift til Johan Asplund.
Brutus Österlings Bokforlag Symposium.
p. 181–200.
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(1997).
Altercentriskt deltagende som förklaring til att spädbarn kan ge omsorg.
In Isenberg, I.B. & Oddner, F. (Ed.),
Seendets pendel. Festskrift til Johan Asplund.
Brutus Österlings Bokforlag Symposium.
p. 181–200.
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(1996).
When toddlers provide care: infants´ companion space.
Childhood.
ISSN 0907-5682.
3(4),
p. 449–465.
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Bråten, Stein Leif; Sjøberg, Svein & Melhus, Margaret
(1997).
Haldningar til andre sin kunnskap.
[Radio].
NRK To - Kunnskapskanalen : Faglig-pedagogisk dag ved Universitetet i Oslo.
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Bråten, Stein Leif
(1997).
Du må ikke tro du...
[Radio].
NRK 1 : NRK1/Vera Kvaal - Serie på tre programmer om kommunikasjon og gruppetilhørighet.
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