2022
DOI: 10.1007/s42087-022-00307-5
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Setting the Seeds for a Normative Expansion of Lewinian Field Theory for Cultural-Psychological Practitioners

Abstract: In the present article, I am examining, expanding, and re-evaluating a Lewinian kind of cultural psychology for cultural-psychological informed practitioners. Originating from Lewinian field theory that behavior is a function of a person and environment, B(f) = P,E, I am introducing a specific equation wanting to illustrate Lewin’s theory about cultural psychology. A person is driven by specific needs and goals that develop while him relating to his very own environment. Yet, how these needs and goals are purs… Show more

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“…After satisfying the need, the food returns into a neutral valence and my action field gets relaxed (Lewin, 2013). My psychic and physical energy is no longer directed towards the food and can be re-direct towards the satisfaction of other needs and goals (von Fircks, 2022b). Yet, in another scenario I might not be able to satisfy my hunger as my partner had eaten all the food that I now wanted to eat.…”
Section: What Is Culture? Defining Culture As An Action Fieldmentioning
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“…After satisfying the need, the food returns into a neutral valence and my action field gets relaxed (Lewin, 2013). My psychic and physical energy is no longer directed towards the food and can be re-direct towards the satisfaction of other needs and goals (von Fircks, 2022b). Yet, in another scenario I might not be able to satisfy my hunger as my partner had eaten all the food that I now wanted to eat.…”
Section: What Is Culture? Defining Culture As An Action Fieldmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Yet, there are multiple ways how to do that. Thus, there is no universal recipe and it depends upon the person appropriating this environmental task creatively in order to do justice to it(von Fircks, 2022b). Again, we cannot bracket the person nor the environment in this example.…”
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