Michael Mascolo

Biographic Data

ID9748638
NAMEMichael Mascolo
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEMascolo
SIGNATUREMASCOLO M
AFFILIATIONSMerrimack College
ORCID0000-0001-9306-3067
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The wisdom project protocol: Reasoning for Wisdom in Complex Real-World Enactive Problem Solving

    Open AccessIris Stammberger, Michael F Mascolo et al.ARTICLEMind & Society2025References: 6

  • Theorizing “Primal World Beliefs”: A Relational-Developmental Account

    Open AccessMichael F Mascolo, Michael MascoloARTICLEHuman Development2024

    Clifton and his colleagues have proposed a dimension-based conception of “primal world beliefs” – beliefs about “the overall character of the world.” Citing the potential importance of “primal world beliefs,” Lansford et al. (this volume) have called for research on their development. In this paper, I suggest that the concepts of “primal,” “world,” and “belief” rely on unarticulated everyday concepts that are psychologically undertheorized. The m…

  • A Relational Conception of Emotional Development: Emotions as Felt Forms of Organismic Engagement

    Michael MascoloCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Emotional…2022

    This chapter advances a relational conception of emotions and their development. From a relational view, emotions consist of felt forms of organismic engagement with the world. As modes of engagement, different emotions are organized in terms of different relations between a person’s motives and circumstances. As modes of engagement, emotions are aspects of ongoing adaptive action—emergent configurations of motivational, perceptual, experiential,…

  • Emotional Development: The View From Between

    Open AccessMichael MascoloARTICLEEmotion Review2020

    It is an honor to be able to engage Ezequiel Di Paolo’s and David Sander’s reflections on relational conceptions of emotional development. In this reply, I elaborate on the role of emotion in the open-ended construction of self. Di Paolo suggests that emotions are “collectively constituted ways of regulating human becoming” (2020, p. 229); Sander (2020) maintains that as felt modes of engagement, emotions play a central role in processes related …

  • A Relational Conception of Emotional Development

    Open AccessMichael MascoloARTICLEEmotion Review2020

    In this article, I outline a relational-developmental conception of emotion that situates emotional activity within a broader conception of persons as holistic, relational beings. In this model, emotions consist of felt forms of engagement with the world. As felt aspects of ongoing action, uninhibited emotional experiences are not private states that are inaccessible to other people; instead, they are revealed directly through their bodily expres…

  • The concept of culture: Introduction to spotlight series on conceptualizing culture

    Catherine Raeff, Allison DiBianca Fasoli et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2020

    Questioning traditions and conventions was part of the postmodern order of the 1980s and 1990s. Some social scientists were questioning whether universal laws characterize human functioning and dev

  • Images of Self in Psychological Thought

    Open AccessMichael F Mascolo, Michael Mascolo et al.ARTICLEPsychological Studies2019

  • Constructing Intercultural Selves: Bridging Cultural Conflict Through Dialectical Engagement

    Open AccessDiana Marginean, Sarah Lambert Derian et al.ARTICLEPsychological Studies2019

  • A Relational Conception of Self and Its Development

    Open AccessMichael F Mascolo, Michael MascoloARTICLEPsychological Studies2019

  • The transformation of a White supremacist: A dialectical-developmental analysis

    Michael F Mascolo, Michael MascoloARTICLEQualitative Psychology2017

  • Neo-Piagetian Theories of Cognitive Development

    Open AccessMichael F Mascolo, Michael MascoloCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Contents Vol. 57, 2014

    Brian K Barber, Michael F Mascolo et al.ARTICLEHuman Development2014

  • Toward a Relational-Developmental Model of Character Development

    Open AccessMichael F Mascolo, Michael MascoloARTICLEHuman Development2014

    In their provocative, integrative and timely paper, Lerner and Schmid Callina [this issue] have called for a new generation of character research, one that reflects an understanding of character as viewed from a relational-developmental perspective. The relational-developmental approach, elaborated by Lerner and his colleagues over many years, is one of several types of developmental systems frameworks that have emerged in developmental science i…

  • Individual and relational conceptions of self in India and the United States

    Open AccessMichael F Mascolo, Michael Mascolo et al.ARTICLENew Directions for Child and…2004

    A comparison involving individuals in urban areas of India and the United States reveals both individual and relational concepts of self in each sample. However, cultural differences arose in specific ways in which individual and relational concepts are constructed

  • The Dynamic Construction of Culture, Self and Social Relations

    Open AccessMichael F Mascolo, Michael Mascolo et al.ARTICLEPsychology and Developing Societies2002

    Selves emerge in development through intersystemic co-action. To illustrate this position the case of pride, a self-evaluative emotion, is used. It is argued that language and other semi otic vehicles of culture are instrumental in the social mediation of the shared meaning systems that frame the development of self-evaluative emotions. Illustrations from interviews with participants from India and the US suggest similarities as well as differenc…