Affordances and the normativity of emotions

Hufendiek, Rebekka

doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1144-7

Cited by 27 publications

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“…But we perceive environments as affording more than just practical actions (e.g., reaching for and grasping a beer bottle or nuts in a bowl). What is often overlooked in these debates is that we also perceive affective affordances (Hufendiek 2016).…”

Section: Constructing Affordance Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective affordances and psychopathology

Krueger¹,

Colombetti²

2018

Philosophical Perspectives on Affective Experience and Psychopathology

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Affective affordances and psychopathology Self-disorders in depression and schizophrenia have been the focus of much recent work in phenomenological psychopathology. But little has been said about the role the material environment plays in shaping the affective character of these disorders. In this paper, we argue that enjoying reliable (i.e., trustworthy) access to the things and spaces around us-the constituents of our material environment-is crucial for our ability to stabilize and regulate our affective life on a day-today basis. These things and spaces often play an ineliminable role in shaping what we feel and how we feel it; when we interact with them, they contribute ongoing feedback that "scaffolds" the character and temporal development of our affective experiences. However, in some psychopathological conditions, the ability to access these things and spaces becomes disturbed. Individuals not only lose certain forms of access to the practical significance of the built environment but also to its regulative significance, too-and the stability and organization of their affective life is compromised. In developing this view, we discuss core concepts like "affordance spaces", "scaffolding", and "incorporation". We apply these concepts to two case studies, severe depression and schizophrenia, and we show why these cases support our main claim. We conclude by briefly considering implications of this view for developing intervention and treatment strategies.

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Section: Constructing Affordance Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective affordances and psychopathology

Krueger¹,

Colombetti²

2018

Philosophical Perspectives on Affective Experience and Psychopathology

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“…The felt property of salience within the perceptual world occurs via affective goads that dynamically covary with homeokinetic and exogenous needs, leading to adaptive action patterns and information-seeking behaviors. Affect motivates perception as the internal context that locks onto relevant invariant aspects of the environment to shape subpersonal processes, which then serve the intentional aspects of act-planning (S. Gallagher, 2009;Hufendiek, 2017;Pacherie, 2011). The unity of perception-action systems qua affordances are depicted as learned vehicles of imperative informational transfer between the creature and the learned context of the social and spatial environment (Heft, 2007;Hutto & Myin, 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The motivational role of affect in an ecological model

Gabriel

2021

Theory & Psychology

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Drawing from empirical literature on ecological psychology, affective neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, this article describes a model of affect-as-motivation in the intentional bond between organism and environment. An epistemological justification for the motivating role of emotions is provided through articulating the perceptual context of emotions as embodied, situated, and functional, and positing perceptual salience as a biasing signal in an affordance competition model. The motivational role of affect is pragmatically integrated into discussions of action selection in the neurosciences.

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“…Not only does the world practically constrain and allow certain styles of expressive action, it also affords different forms of interactive possibilities. We do not perceive our environments as neutral but as permeated with certain affordances, solicitations for particular actions or affective possibilities (Gibson 1986;Valenti & Gold 1991;Kiverstein 2015;Hufendiek 2016;Krueger & Colombetti 2018). By affording various action, social, and affective possibilities, the environment can solicit and drive particular forms of interaction.…”

Section: Materials Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%