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Valsiner, J. Cornejo C., Marsico G .(2019). How can things be ordinary? In G. Marsico & L. Tateo (Eds). Ordinary Things and their Extraordinary Meanings. Annals of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society, Volume 3, pp. vii-x, Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing
No full textIn the present volume, the third of the series Annals of Cultural Psychology, Giuseppina Marsico and Luca Tateo present us the surprisingly complex semiotic reality of the material things surrounding us. These wide set of objects and stances thoroughly overspread our immediate environment. From the sounds that compose our speech, to our clothing; from our pen to the music we hear; money and the windows. Most familiar aspects of our environment —precisely those aspects that we in normal circumstances take for granted— involve the manipulation of or merely the confrontation with things. Already the pervasiveness of material things in our social world would be a reason to have, and even since a long time, a psychology of things. Curiously enough, as the editors in their introduction show, such a topic should be justified for the contemporary psychology. Since its origins psychology has leaned to abstraction edifying models of mind settled by inmaterial instances, or rather, virtual entitites whose materiality (or inmateriality) is not an question. As these objects are abstract (representations, concepts, ideas, etc.), they are not part of the concrete world where people live in. Psychology’s predilection for extraordinary things (and the consequently oblivion of ordinary things) is deeply rooted in the long tradition of philosophical detachment from the concreteness —a tradition that invented the imperceptible thing-in-itself, perhaps the best example of abstracting from the mundane world
Brandelli Costa A., Marsico, G., (2021). Consolidating the past, moving towards the future, Trend in Psychology, 29(2), doi: 10.1007/s43076-021-00080-4
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Published: 06 May 2021
Consolidating the Past, Moving Towards the Future
Angelo Brandelli Costa & Giuseppina Marsico
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It is with great joy that in 2021, we assumed the role of editors-in-chief of Trends in Psychology, which is the official voice of the Brazilian Society of Psychology (SBP).
We both already served the journal as associate editors and have had fruitful cooperation with SBP. In this way, we have been witnesses the immense growth of the journal in recent years under the direction of Professor Luísa Habigzang, to whom goes our gratitude for her work taking so well care of the transitions from a Portuguese based journal to an English based one. Professor Habigzand was one of the leading figures along with key persons of the SPB through the journal’s new publishing partnership with Springer. This complex process has been completed thanks also to the restless work of the Springer editor Dr. Bruno Fiuza
Teaching school psychology to psychologists
No full textIn this chapter, we offer some insights for teaching psychology and training school psychologists. Five points are made. The first one is about the historical perspective that will help to understand the current development in school psychology. The second point deals with the professional profile of school psychologists, and it indicates the different domains of their interventions. The third point explores the knowledge and competencies school psychologists should master to effectively carry out their work. The fourth point addresses the question of how to train professional school psychologists
Valsiner, J., Marsico, G., (2019). Symbolic Places: Cultural Psychology of Human Life Course. In T. Zittoun (2019). Sociocultural Psychology at the Regional Scale: A case study of a hill. Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science, (pp. vii-ix), New York: Springer New York:Springer
No full textThis book reveals the intricacies of how human lives are interwoven with symbolic places created out of natural environments. Its author is on the forefront of our contemporary cultural psychologies movement—building new science of specifically human psychology (“Yokohama Manifesto”- Valsiner, Marsico, Chaudhary, Sato and Dazzani, 2016). In this new trans-disciplinary work artificial borders between various sciences—psychology, geography, sociology, anthropology, history, ad folklore—vanish. Instead we have a picture of unique texture of human beings living in their self-constructed life-worlds embedded in community, society, and—last but not least- in the geological textures of their given natural environment
Marsico, G., Brandelli Costa, A., (2023). The Journal’s Growth: The Role of the Associate Editors, Trends in Psychology. 10.1007/s43076-023-00296-6
No full textIt is always with great happiness that we announce the growth of our journal. Based
on Springer annual report, since 2020, the journal has doubled the number of articles
accepted for publication. Also, the number of accesses to the full texts of published
articles increased by almost three times. The journal has also seen an increasing
diversity in terms of geographic regions for both the submissions received and
the accesses, with author and readers from all the continents. This is the result of the
collective efforts of our associate editors, along with the Brazilian Society of Psychology and the Springer Team
Marsico, G. (2020). Psychology as an Historical Cultural Product. In M. Massimi, Psychological Knowledge and Practices in Brazilian Culture. Latin American Voices, 4 (pp.vii-ix), São Paulo, Brazil
No full textThe academic life is sometimes filled by a curious sequel of events and coincidences. I have never meet in person Marina Massimi, the author of this volume titled Psychological Knowledge and Practices in Brazilian Culture. Yet, our lives crossed already several times and all the times it was because her publications. Marina Massimi is, indeed, one of the most prominent scholar in the History of Psychology in South America and I had already a taste of her vaste knowledge about the historical roots of psychological and education sciences in the Brazilian context, in a volume I co-edited some years ago (Massimi 2015) to which Dr. Massimi contributed. I am very glad to host again her work within Latin America Voices Book Series that will serve as an international “sounding board” for her investigation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Cornejio C., Valsiner, J., Marsico, G. (2015). Motherhood: a cultural arena for the Meaning Making process. In C., Cornejio, G., Marsico & J., Valsiner, (Eds.). Making meaning, making motherhood. Annals Of Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society, Volume 1, (pp. 3-8), Charlotte, N.C. USA: Information Age Publishing
No full textThis volume is the firstborn of the Annals of Cultural Psychology—a yearly
edited book series in the field of Cultural Psychology. It came into being
as there is a need for reflection on “where and what” the discipline needs
to further develop, in such a way, the current frontiers and to foster the
elaboration of new fruitful ideas. This is an indicator of a rapidly developing
research area. But any rapid expansion is dangerous—it can proliferate
directions for new research that set the field up in a cycle of fashionable
yet noncreative discourses. The basic polysemy of the notion of culture is
a most likely target for such conceptual stalemates—easy to use as a term,
seemingly understandable ... but ... in at least 200 different ways. Cultural
psychology is thus the prime target of making itself mundane—due to
the use of its core term, culture. A paradoxical situation that needs to be
avoided.
How do we plan to do that in the Annals series? Aside from sieving
through the varieties of ideas that have surfaced in the field in the previous
years, we dedicate each volume to a distinct foundational topic in the study
of which elaboration of what culture means for science is inevitable. The
topic chosen for the first volume is perhaps the most fundamental of all—
motherhood. We are all here because at some unspecifiable time in the
past, different women labored hard to bring each of us into this world.
These women were not thinking of culture, but were just giving birth. Yet,
by their reproductive success—and years of worry about our growing up—
we are now, thankfully to them, in a position to discuss the general notion
of motherhood from the angle of cultural psychology
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