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Jaan Valsiner
Researcher at Aalborg University
Publications - 394
Citations - 13544
Jaan Valsiner is an academic researcher from Aalborg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural psychology & Dialogical self. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 384 publications receiving 12659 citations. Previous affiliations of Jaan Valsiner include University of Luxembourg & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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What is “natural” about “natural contexts”?: Cultural construction of human development (and its study)
TL;DR: The issue of using natural contexts to study human development is crucial for theoretical innovation within developmental psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it is argued that the opposing natural versus laboratory contexts is a culturally constructed artifact.
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Dependent-Independence in Adult-Child Relationships
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of children's participation in and understanding of their world and find that children's actions themselves change this environment and in so doing create opportunities for actions that were not previously available.
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Common sense and psychological theories: The historical nature of logical necessity
TL;DR: The importance of common sense for psychological theories is construed as a limiting condition that must be transcended if a particular psychological theory is expected to have generalizability across cultures and over history as discussed by the authors.