When Affective Relation Weighs More Than the Mug Handle: Investigating Affective Affordances

摘要

Enactive and embodied approaches to cognition are becoming increasingly interested in theaffective dimension of human experience (Varela and Depraz, 2005; Colombetti, 2007, 2014;Colombetti and Thompson, 2008; Di Paolo and De Jaegher, 2015; Gallagher and Varga, 2015;Gallagher and Allen, 2016; Scorolli, 2019). Consistently, this issue has been addressed in empiricalresearch, which is paying growing attention to the affective quality of social contexts by addressingmotor simulations (Bastiaansen et al., 2009; Kuhbandner et al., 2010), joint actions (Godman, 2013;Pesquita et al., 2018), emotional disorders (Gjelsvik et al., 2018), and body psychotherapy (R?hrichtet al., 2014).