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A difficult introduction to affective social learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2019

By
Fabrice Clément  and
Daniel Dukes
Edited by
Daniel Dukes  and
Fabrice Clément
Daniel Dukes
Affiliation:
Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Fabrice Clément
Affiliation:
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Affective social learning is a relatively new concept that needed teasing out. In this introductory chapter, we set out what we meant by the notion as we initially set it out in previous versions. The goal here is to provide the reader with the background to the concept and indeed to the following chapters and, ultimately, to use as a starting point when measuring how the concept evolves over the length of the book. We begin then, by explaining how difficult it can be, conceptually, to marry three important areas of (psychological) research – emotion (affect), the ‘social’ and learning, before setting out the conditions and describing the major components involved in affective social learning. We end by briefly introducing the following chapters.

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Affective social learningvaluessocializationsocial appraisalsocial referencingnatural pedagogycultureemotion contagion

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Foundations of Affective Social Learning
Conceptualizing the Social Transmission of Value
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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