Nagatsu Michiru, Salmela Mikko
Center for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT), Practical Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Center for Subjectivity Research, Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Rev Philos Psychol. 2022 Mar 18;14(4):1-28. doi: 10.1007/s13164-022-00625-1.
This paper contributes to the interdisciplinary theory of collective affective niche construction, which extends the extended mind (ExM) thesis from cognitive to affective phenomena. Although theoretically innovative, the theory lacks a detailed psychological account of how collective affectivity is scaffolded. It has also been criticized for its uncritical assumption of the subject qua the autonomous user of the affective scaffolding as disposable resources, abstracting away from embedded subjectivity in particular techno-political arrangements. We propose that the social motivation hypothesis, an account grounded in recent empirical and theoretical developments in psychology as well as in the classic theory of moral sentiments, will address the former criticism by explicating the basic mechanisms of human social orientation at work in collective affective niche construction. We also begin to address the latter normative criticism in mobilizing a so-called we-mode approach to collective emotion. To make these theoretical dialectics salient, we study social media as a case of collective affective niches, focusing on the impact on subjective well-being. Finally, we briefly identify promising future directions in building a normative theory of affective niche construction on the collective level.
本文对集体情感利基构建的跨学科理论做出了贡献，该理论将延展心智（ExM）论点从认知现象扩展到情感现象。尽管该理论在理论上具有创新性，但它缺乏对集体情感如何得以支撑的详细心理学解释。它还因不加批判地假设主体作为情感支撑的自主使用者是可支配资源而受到批评，忽略了特定技术政治安排中的嵌入式主体性。我们提出，社会动机假说，一种基于心理学近期实证和理论发展以及经典道德情感理论的解释，将通过阐释在集体情感利基构建中起作用的人类社会取向的基本机制来回应前一种批评。我们还开始通过运用一种所谓的“我们模式”集体情感方法来回应后一种规范性批评。为了使这些理论辩证法更加突出，我们将社交媒体作为集体情感利基的一个案例进行研究，重点关注其对主观幸福感的影响。最后，我们简要确定了在集体层面构建情感利基构建规范理论的有前景的未来方向。
