Situated Affectivity, Enactivism, and the Weapons Effect

Existing research on the “weapons effect” indicates that simply seeing a weapon can prime aggressive thoughts and appraisals increase behavior. But how why does this happen? I begin by discussing prevailing explanations of weapons effect propose these accounts tend to be over-intellectualistic insofar as they downplay or overlook important role played affectivity. In my view, insights from fields situated affectivity enactivism help us understand cognitive affective processes jointly contribute effect. Insofar presence alters subject’s bodily-affective orientation thereby brings about embodied mindshaping, it changes way engage with their surroundings. To effect, we will need examine constitutive interdependency appraisal in which motivate action. My proposed account emphasizes affordance perception subjects gauge meaning an object according its action-possibilities.