ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a number of key body concepts that will enable people to differentiate the paradigm of embodiment from the concept of social influence. The concept of social influence brings into being both a concept of the naturalistic body and a conception of the social that refers to those processes most likely to influence the biological in a fairly peripheral fashion. The chapter focuses on the extraordinary, the apparently inexplicable, the anomalous, and work that tends to be kept in the background as it threatens some of the implicit and often explicit formulations of the body that have entered social theory from the paradigm of social influence. It starts by considering an experiment within early psychology that confounded the experimenters and led to the belief that 'Clever Hans', a Russian horse, might have.
