dc.contributor.author
Candiotto, Laura
dc.contributor.author
Dreon, Roberta
dc.date.accessioned
2021-04-21T07:15:47Z
dc.date.available
2021-04-21T07:15:47Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/30445
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-30186
dc.description.abstract
In this paper, we provide a pragmatist conceptualization of affective habits as relatively flexible ways of channeling affectivity. Our proposal, grounded in a conception of sensibility and habits derived from John Dewey, suggests understanding affective scaffoldings in a novel and broader sense by re-orienting the debate from objects to interactions. We claim that habits play a positive role in supporting and orienting human sensibility, allowing us to avoid any residue of dualism between internalist and externalist conceptions of affectivity. We provide pragmatist tools for understanding the environment's role in shaping our feelings, emotions, moods, and affective behaviors. However, we contend that in addition to environment, the continuous and recursive affective transaction between agent and environment (both natural and cultural) are also crucially involved. We claim that habits are transformative, which is especially evident when we consider that emotions are often the result of a crisis in habitual behavior and successively play a role in prompting changes of habits. The final upshot is a conceptualization of affective habits as pervasive tools for feelings that scaffold human conduct as well as key features in the transformation of behaviors.
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dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
affective habits
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dc.subject
affective scaffoldings
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dc.subject
situated affectivity
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dc.subject
habit crisis
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dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie
dc.title
Affective Scaffoldings as Habits
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dc.title.subtitle
A Pragmatist Approach
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
629046
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629046
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Frontiers in Psychology
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
12
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629046
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.note.author
We acknowledge support by the Open Access Publication Initiative of Freie Universität Berlin.
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access