In 1977, social psychologist James Gibson coined the term “affordance” to denote “action possibilities provided to the actor by the environment”.[2] A decade later, Donald Norman introduced affordances to the field of object design in his well-known book The Psychology of Everyday Things (1988), after which the concept quickly made its way into all corners of the humanities and social sciences, including the study of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

It’s difficult to say that the prosperity gospel itself led to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Again, only 17 percent of American Christians identify with it explicitly. It’s far more true, however, to say that the same cultural forces that led to the prosperity gospel’s proliferation in America — individualism, an affinity for ostentatious and charismatic leaders, the Protestant work ethic, and a cultural obsession with the power of “positive thinking” — shape how we, as a nation, approach politics.