The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology is dedicated to the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment. The chapters here included explore the historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of affectivating originally in-troduced by one of us (Valsiner, 1999), as a potential tool of inquiry into the affective-sensitive dimension of psychological life within a cultural-psychological framework. Why this new term? And why dedicate a whole volume of the Annals to contributions that, in one way or another—use the term for some theoretical purposes? The slightly awkward notion of affectivating brings the affective dimension of the human experience into the centre of the scope of cultural Psychologies, which have usually focused on the social side of human experiencing. Insofar as different versions of Cultural Psychology have fostered a view of the mind as socially constituted, aspects of the mind traditionally understood as individual have been minimized or even neglected. This has distinctively been the case of affects in social conceptions of mind.

Cornejo, C., Marsico, G. & Valsiner, J. (Eds.). (2018). I Activate You to Affect Me”: Affectivating as a Cultural Psychological Phenomenon. In C. Cornejo, G. Marsico, & J. Valsiner (Eds.). “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, Giuseppina
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The second volume of Annals of Cultural Psychology is dedicated to the affective nature of human social relationships with the environment. The chapters here included explore the historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of affectivating originally in-troduced by one of us (Valsiner, 1999), as a potential tool of inquiry into the affective-sensitive dimension of psychological life within a cultural-psychological framework. Why this new term? And why dedicate a whole volume of the Annals to contributions that, in one way or another—use the term for some theoretical purposes? The slightly awkward notion of affectivating brings the affective dimension of the human experience into the centre of the scope of cultural Psychologies, which have usually focused on the social side of human experiencing. Insofar as different versions of Cultural Psychology have fostered a view of the mind as socially constituted, aspects of the mind traditionally understood as individual have been minimized or even neglected. This has distinctively been the case of affects in social conceptions of mind.
2018
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