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Cultural Historical Psychology and the Reset of History
The authors argue that, in the research trajectory of cultural historical psychology, there are nuclear aspects of Vygotsky’s theory that have been...
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Debating the colonial ascendant in decolonization of psychology– perspectives from Indian psychology
This article explores the discourse and initiatives regarding decolonization within the field of Psychology, highlighting the perspectives from...
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Discussing the Concept of Crisis in Cultural-historical Activity Research: a Dialectical Perspective
The concept of crisis has a long history across disciplines (medicine, history, political economy, political science, sociology, psychology, history,...
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Vygotsky’s, Leontiev’s and Engeström’s Cultural-Historical (Activity) Theories: Overview, Clarifications and Implications
At the social turn in education, Vygotsky’s cultural-historical/sociocultural theory (VST) has become particularly influential. There are other...
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Towards a Semiotic Cultural Clinical Psychology: Contributions for the Discussion
This article outlines the basic premises of the proposal for a semiotic cultural clinical psychology and presents how these premises could be...
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Neuroscience and Vygotsky: Putting Together Contemporary Evidence and Cultural-Historical Psychology
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, Alexis Nikolaevich Leontiev, and Alexander Romamovich Luria proposed the...
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Between Meanings and Senses-Making Spaces: Agency and Ownership Emergence Formalization from Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position, for an AI-Friendly Model
Sense of agency and sense of ownership are considered crucial in autonomous systems . However, drawbacks still exist regarding how to represent their...
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Childhood Absence Epilepsy: A Historical-Cultural Neuropsychological Approach
The chapter seeks to present historical-cultural neuropsychology, which is based on the principles of historical-cultural psychology and Luria’s...
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The “Creativity Crisis” as a Mind in Crisis: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position
Creativity is considered a global ability and crucial for ordinary-daily and special (e.g., science, aesthetic) activities. In this paper, from the...
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Crisis, Dialectics, and Subjectivity Within Cultural-historical Approach: Constructing a Dialogue Between Dafermos and González Rey
This commentary on Dafermos’ paper entitled “Develo** a dialectical understanding of the crisis in cultural-historical and activity research”...
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The Power and Pitfalls of Positive Psychology: Navigating Critiques and Criticisms
This opinion article critically examines two fundamental categories of critiques of positive psychology scholarship: the lack of a clear definition...
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Rethinking the History of Modern Psychology-A Book Review of ‘Psychology in Modern India: Historical, Methodological, and Future Perspectives’
Historiography entails a social construction which is closely linked to questions of power and resistance. Scholars frequently challenge dominant...
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Origins of the Psychology of Meaning—from Culture to Psychology
In the present work, an attempt is made to approach the cultural-psychological question of the human search for meaning. Different sub-areas of...
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Native Hawaiians and Psychology: The Cultural and Historical Context of Indigenous Ways of Knowing
This chapter reviews psychological research on Native Hawaiians conducted in the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. The rationale is to...
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Cultural-Historical Theory and the Dialectics of Lower and Higher Psychological Functions
This paper is grounded on what I refer to as the new reality of Vygotsky’s legacy (Veresov,
2020 ,2021 ). I shall shortly introduce this new reality,... -
Positive Psychology in a Secular Age: Exploring the Influence of Secularization on the Ideological Underpinnings of the Positive Psychology Movement
Psychologists’ assumptions about the world influence theory creation, hypothesis testing, and practical applications. In A Secular Age , Charles...
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Politics and Psychology
This article presents a discussion inspired by the invitation formed by Kevin Carriere’s book: “Psychology in Policy – Redefining Politics Through...
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Reclaiming Indian Psychology: Some Reflections
This short essay shares reflections on Sinha’s seminal paper published in 1965 from a historical perspective. It is organised in three sections. The...
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Virtues in Positive Psychology and the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
In this chapter, we explore the overlap and intersections of research on virtue within the fields of positive psychology and the psychology of...