1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.

Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research

Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

From the Publisher:
The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity. From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.

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Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

The measurement of meaning

How we Think

Reading Tarasti is not easy. The author’s enormous erudition shows on every page of the book, and his capability of weaving together various ideas into nice new improvisations seems well supported by his unique reliance on music as the inspiration for new ideas. Like the movement of a melody, the text in this book could be considered to approximateDer Ring desNiebelungen in its dramatic elaboration of the earlier version of existential semiotics into a transcendental one. Tarasti—much like Wagner—takes the reader through various dramatic expositions of the semiotic square of Algirdas Greimas, arriving at the basic scheme that takes on the form of letter Z (p. 31, and especially in chapter 10 where a new theory of performing arts is offered) of the relating of the personal and the social in the process of semiosis. That scheme—de facto a nonlinear continuum between different structures ofMoi and Soi—is subsequently applied to various phenomena of cultural construction—music, film, etc. Tarasti’s book is delicious to read, yet for contemporary readers who are used to all kinds of dieting programs—both culinary and intellectual—it includes a thick layer of philosophical and historical accumulations of knowledge. This book is a treat to the philosophically sophisticated reader, while a layperson is likely to find it too complex for easy reading. The author’s style of writing lives up to that of a complex musical composition—deep existential philosophical ideas emerge in the middle of chatting about all key figures of semiotics of today and of the past. The personal stories that are interspersed with semiotic analyses are refreshing to the reader.

Finnish baroque of existential semiotics: Eero Tarasti's musical synthesis of the voluptuous dance of signs

The 9 months of pregnancy constitute a most important transition in woman’s life — from womanhood to motherhood. Psychological characteristics of the pregnant woman can be considered to be the uniting link between a series of hormonal and physiological adaptations to the pregnancy on the one hand, and social psychological adaptations on the other. It can be assumed that the attitudes of the pregnant women towards different events, persons, and objects reflect the social-psychological and physiological adaptations to pregnancy in the psychological realm.

Self-Evaluation and Attitudes of Pregnant Women

Diversidade e cultura da paz na escolar

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Desde el gesto hasta el self : Perspectivas comunes en la sociopsicologías de George Mead y Lev Vygotski

Abstract. Psychology has been challenged by its own terminological limitations, in which phenomena of large-scale, field-like kind force us to innovate with our theoretical tools. Phenomena with global impacts – epidemics, pandemics, famines, and the like – remain on the periphery of psychology’s theoretical efforts. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is no different. Like previous pandemics, it reveals the difficulty of dealing with phenomena on a global scale and understanding the inherent organization of the cloud-like phenomena. Psychological research has mainly focused on individual traumatic experiences, impacts, and consequences. Less attention has been paid to how people in different societies make meaning of these changes in everyday life. Psychologically, people want to control the pandemic, while in reality we simply escape from it. All of the measures instituted in response to it are escape-oriented, not glorious accounts of winning a war on the invisible enemy. Theoretically, we learn from the current experience the relevance of how humans escalate and circumvent the proliferation of the panic of fear through building and demolishing borders in mind and society. We all are living in a sort of atmos-fear, a culturally cultivated state of affective limbo that is easy to trigger and difficult to modulate. How do human beings deal with this core issue of feeling safe/unsafe, and how does it affect individual and collective conduct? This paper attempts to demonstrate how the COVID-19 example can theoretically illuminate new perspectives of international psychology that will become increasingly more crucial in a future where global events are likely to recur.

Jaan Valsiner

Papers

Finnish baroque of existential semiotics: Eero Tarasti's musical synthesis of the voluptuous dance of signs

Self-Evaluation and Attitudes of Pregnant Women

Diversidade e cultura da paz na escolar

Desde el gesto hasta el self : Perspectivas comunes en la sociopsicologías de George Mead y Lev Vygotski

The Pandemic Atmos-Fear