Interpersonal and Collective Affective Niche Construction: Empirical and Normative Perspectives on Social Media.
Review of Philosophy and Psychology March 18, 2022 Michiru Nagatsu, Mikko Salmela
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...