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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Embodied Cognition

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  • Growing research links bodily sensations and behaviors to emotional responses.
  • Emotions are influenced by environmental affective qualities and bodily resonance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a framework model of embodied affectivity.
  • To explore the connection between motion and emotion.
  • To apply the model to interaffectivity and psychopathology.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual framework development.
  • Analysis of the circular interaction between environment and bodily resonance.
  • Application of the model to social understanding and clinical contexts.

Main Results:

  • Emotions result from a circular interaction between environmental affordances and bodily resonance (sensations, postures, movements).
  • Motion and emotion are intrinsically linked, influencing perception and action.
  • Interaffectivity involves intertwined cycles of embodied affectivity.

Conclusions:

  • The body acts as a medium for emotional perception, coloring experience with affective valences.
  • Embodied affectivity is altered in psychopathology and can be targeted in psychotherapy.
  • The proposed model offers a new perspective on emotional processing and social interaction.