Tag Archives: affect

The affective turn – theorizing the social

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

“The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork … Continue reading →

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Pedagogic affect: assembling an affirming ethics

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

This article takes as its focus the doing of pedagogic affect. We are not so much concerned with what pedagogic affect is as what it does and how it might do more. We revisit Spinozist concepts of affect, as taken … Continue reading →

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Affective resonance and social interaction

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Interactive social cognition theory and approaches of developmental psychology widely agree that central aspects of emotional and social experience arise in the unfolding of processes of embodied social interaction. Bi-directional dynamical couplings of bodily displays such as facial expressions, gestures, … Continue reading →

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The social buffering of pain by affective touch

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Pain is modulated by social context. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown that romantic partners can provide a potent form of social support during pain. However, such studies have only focused on passive support, finding a relatively late-onset modulation of pain-related … Continue reading →

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Cognitive and affective development in adolescence

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Questions about the nature of normative and atypical development in adolescence have taken on special significance in the last few years, as scientists have begun to recast old portraits of adolescent behavior in the light of new knowledge about brain … Continue reading →

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Extending the extended mind: the case for extended affectivity

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

The thesis of the extended mind (ExM) holds that the material underpinnings of an individual’s mental states and processes need not be restricted to those contained within biological boundaries: when conditions are right, material artefacts can be incorporated by the … Continue reading →

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Emotional Cognition: From Brain to Behavior

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Emotional Cognition gives the reader an up to date overview of the current state of emotion and cognition research that is striving for computationally explicit accounts of the relationship between these two domains. Many different areas are covered by some … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Creativity: A Complex Systems Model with Distributed Affect

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The study of creativity has received significant attention over the past century, with a recent increase in interest in collaborative, distributed creativity. We posit that creativity in distributed groups is fostered by software interfaces that specifically enable socio-emotional or affective … Continue reading →

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Social Relationships – Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The extraordinary importance of personal relationships to the health and happiness of human beings hardly can be overstated. From the time they are born, humans crave love and intimacy and the joy of knowing that they are valued and cherished … Continue reading →

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The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia and Bodies

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

… many of the critics and theorists who turned to affect often focused on the circuit from affect to emotion, ending up with subjectively felt states of emotion – a return to the subject as the subject of emotion. I … Continue reading →