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Childhood mental health: an ecological analysis of the effects of neighborhood characteristics [PDF]

, 2016
Research on childhood mental illness traditionally examines risk factors most proximal to the child. However, current trends reflect growing interest in how broader contextual factors contribute to psychopathology risk.
Kemp, Gail N., Langer, David A., Tompson, Martha C.   +2 more
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An eco-psychological framework for research on the physical environment of childcare classrooms and children’s play behavior

Frontiers in Psychology
Ecological psychology is an approach focused on the perception and behavior of organisms and environments, offering psychological insights for research on children. This study primarily explored the concepts of affordance and behavior setting based on an
Chenhao Deng, Zhiyi Zhao, Nur maizura Ahmad Noorhani, Arniatul Aiza Mustapha   +3 more
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Psychology and Sustainability, Homo Technicusand Slow Tech [PDF]

, 2019
Psychology and Sustainability, Homo Technicus and Slow TechIn previous issues of Visions for Sustainabilitywe have often published papers that consider the relationship between psychology and sustainability.
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Distal engagement: Intentions in perception [PDF]

, 2020
Non-representational approaches to cognition have struggled to provide accounts of long-term planning that forgo the use of representations. An explanation comes easier for cognitivist accounts, which hold that we concoct and use contentful mental ...
Brancazio, Nick, Segundo Ortin, Miguel
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A validity and reliability study of the Attitudes toward Sustainable Development scale [PDF]

, 2016
This article describes the development and validation of the Attitudes toward Sustainable Development scale, a quantitative 20-item scale that measures Italian university students\u2019 attitudes toward sustainable development.
Biasutti, Michele, Frate, Sara
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Lost Toy? Monsters Under the Bed? Contributions of Temperament and Family Factors to Early Internalizing Problems in Boys and Girls [PDF]

, 2011
This study was designed to examine the contribution of multiple risk factors to early internalizing problems and to investigate whether family and ecological context moderated the association between child temperament and internalizing outcomes. A sample
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J., Carter, Alice S., Marakovitz, Susan E., Mian, Nicholas D., Wagmiller, Robert L.   +4 more
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It’s Getting Dark, But We Will See: Gaining Collective Momentum in Face of Existential Environmental Threat

Global Environmental Psychology
Collective action to protect the environment is increasingly moving into the focus of environmental psychology. Also policy makers are well-advised to consider the dynamics of collective environmental action as a vehicle to swift ecological ...
Immo Fritsche
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Bringing forth mathematical concepts: signifying sensorimotor enactment in fields of promoted action [PDF]

, 2014
Inspired by Enactivist philosophy yet in dialog with it, we ask what theory of embodied cognition might best serve in articulating implications of Enactivism for mathematics education. We offer a blend of Dynamical Systems Theory and Sociocultural Theory
Abrahamson, D, Trninic, D
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Canonical affordances in context [PDF]

Avant, 2012
James Gibson’s concept of affordances was an attempt to undermine the traditional dualism of the objective and subjective. Gibson himself insisted on the continuity of “affordances in general” and those attached to human artifacts.
Alan Costall
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Scale Matters: Temporality in the Perception of Affordances

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
In this paper I seek to unify enactive and ecological approaches to cognitive science by emphasizing the fact that both approaches view cognitive processes as being inherently temporally extended.
Melina Gastelum
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