Maiese Michelle
Department of Philosophy, Emmanuel College Boston, MA, USA.
Front Psychol. 2016 Mar 17;7:359. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00359. eCollection 2016.
Some theorists have argued that elements of the surrounding world play a crucial role in sustaining and amplifying both cognition and emotion. Such insights raise an interesting question about the relationship between cognitive and affective scaffolding: in addition to enabling the realization of specific affective states, can an affective niche also enable the realization of certain cognitive capacities? In order to gain a better understanding of this relationship between affective niches and cognition, I will examine the use of expressive arts in the context of psychotherapy and peacebuilding. In these settings, environmental resources and interpersonal scaffolds not only evoke emotion and encourage the adoption of particular bodily affective styles, but also support the development of capacities for self-awareness and interpersonal understanding. These affective scaffolds play a crucial role in therapy and peacebuilding, in fact, insofar as they facilitate the development of self-knowledge, enhance capacities associated with social cognition, and build positive rapport and trust among participants. I will argue that this is because affectivity is linked to the way that subjects frame and attend to their surroundings. Insofar as the regulation and modification of emotion goes hand in hand with opening up new interpretive frames and establishing new habits of mind, the creation of an affective niche can contribute significantly to various modes of cognition.
一些理论家认为，周围世界的元素在维持和放大认知与情感方面起着至关重要的作用。这些见解引发了一个关于认知支架与情感支架之间关系的有趣问题：除了能够实现特定的情感状态外，情感生态位是否还能促成某些认知能力的实现？为了更好地理解情感生态位与认知之间的这种关系，我将考察心理治疗与建设和平背景下表达性艺术的运用。在这些情境中，环境资源和人际支架不仅能唤起情感并促使人们采用特定的身体情感风格，还能支持自我意识和人际理解能力的发展。实际上，这些情感支架在治疗与建设和平中起着关键作用，因为它们有助于自我认知的发展，增强与社会认知相关的能力，并在参与者之间建立积极的融洽关系和信任。我将论证，这是因为情感与主体构建和关注周围环境的方式相关联。既然情感的调节和改变与开拓新的解释框架以及建立新的思维习惯密切相关，那么情感生态位的创造就能对各种认知模式做出重大贡献。
