The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology, is dedicated to the ways in which psychology could theorize the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment. To emphasize the affective and actions-based nature of that process we have created a term (affectivating = affect + activating) which here is a neologism. It indicates the two-sided (Person => Environment and Environment => Person) process of relating—treating that relating as primarily an affective (and secondarily cognitive) process. Briefly—We affectivate environments that, in that process, turn us affectively tuned to them. This process entails a whole range of acts by a person—from body decorations to clothing to creating the “feeling of home” in one’s house or temporary place of being.
Cornejo, C., Marsico, G. & Valsiner, J. (Eds.). (2018). “I Activate You To Affect Me”. Annals of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society, Volume 2, Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing;
MARSICO, GiuseppinaWriting – Review & Editing
2018-01-01
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The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology, is dedicated to the ways in which psychology could theorize the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment. To emphasize the affective and actions-based nature of that process we have created a term (affectivating = affect + activating) which here is a neologism. It indicates the two-sided (Person => Environment and Environment => Person) process of relating—treating that relating as primarily an affective (and secondarily cognitive) process. Briefly—We affectivate environments that, in that process, turn us affectively tuned to them. This process entails a whole range of acts by a person—from body decorations to clothing to creating the “feeling of home” in one’s house or temporary place of being.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
