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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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How does autodialogue work? Miracles of meaning maintenance and circumvention strategies
Ingrid E. Josephs,Jaan Valsiner +1 more
TL;DR: This paper present a process model of dialogicality that occurs within a person's self-system (autodialogue) in the context of two kinds of tasks: making sense of ordinary happenings and understanding religious miracles.
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Needed for cultural psychology: Methodology in a new key
TL;DR: This paper argued that cultural psychology can lead the rest of the discipline out of the loops of "dust-bowl qualitative empiricism" that is beginning to take form in the social sciences by replacing the focus of the inductive generalization exercise from the field of quantified phenomena (as data) to that of qualitative descriptions (some "rich,’’ some "poor" that leave the illusion of understanding based on our common sense, but do not lead the field into new theoretical breakthroughs).
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Scaffolding within the structure of Dialogical Self: Hierarchical dynamics of semiotic mediation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the notion of scaffolding by signs (semiotic mediation) to the theory of Dialogical Self (DS), which is a construct that brings into psychology a new way of theoretical thought, thinking in dualities.
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Facilitating motivation in young adolescents: Effects of an after-school program
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a motivationally facilitative after-school program on 7th grade students' autonomous motivation, learning goals, school engagement, and performance in science class were examined.