The cultural project is a therapeutic melding of emotion, symbols, and knowledge. In this paper, I describe how spiritual emotions engendered through encounters in imaginative culture enable fixation of metaphysical beliefs. Evolved affective systems are
Rami Gabriel
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Situating the KTA gap in clinical research: Foregrounding a discontinuity in practices
In this study, I will claim that we need to rearticulate the so-called “knowledge-to-action” (KTA) gap metaphor in clinical research as a discontinuity of practices.
Giulia Di Rienzo
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Simon’s scissors and ecological psychology in design for behaviour change [PDF]
Copyright @ 2012 Social Science Electronic PublishingThis paper introduces a series of working papers (Lockton 2011a,b and 2012a-f) providing a background literature review of different disciplinary perspectives on behaviour, informing the development of
Lockton, D
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In Life Itself and in Essays on Life Itself, Robert Rosen (1991, 2000) argued that machines were, in principle, incapable of modeling the defining feature of living systems, which he claimed to be the existence of closed causal loops.
Wells, Andrew J.
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An Interpretation of the Continuous Adaptation of the Self/Environment Process [PDF]
Insights into the nondual relationship of organism and environment and their processual nature have resulted in numerous efforts at understanding human behavior and motivation from a holistic and contextual perspective. Meadian social
Francovich, Chris
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Applying climate psychology principles and methods to the work of leading ecological transformation
To shift today’s economies and societies from ecological transition to ecological transformation, i.e at speed and scale, we need to apply psychology principles and methods.
Renée Lertzman
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Affordances of musical instruments: Conceptual consideration
While the concept of affordances has been applied in music research, it has not been satisfyingly developed regarding musical instruments. The resulting vagueness restricts the potential of the concept to guide exploration, discussion, and development of
Markus Tullberg
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Does Intraindividual Variability of Personality States Improve Perspective Taking? An Ecological Approach Integrating Personality and Social Cognition [PDF]
Research integrating cognitive abilities and personality has focused on the role of personality traits. We propose a theory on the role of intraindividual variability of personality states (hereafter state variability) on perspective taking, in ...
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Encoding natural movement as an agent-based system: an investigation into human pedestrian behaviour in the built environment [PDF]
Gibson's ecological theory of perception has received considerable attention within psychology literature, as well as in computer vision and robotics.
Penn, A, Turner, A
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Affective affordances direct perception meets affectivity
In this paper, I explore and examine different ways in which affectivity is related toperception within ecological psychology. I assess whether some of those wayscompromise the realist and direct aspects of traditional ecological perception.
Eros Carvalho
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