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Robust study design is as important on the social as it is on the ecological side of applied ecological research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
1. The effective management of natural systems often requires resource users to change their behaviour. This has led to many applied ecologists using research tools developed by social scientists.
Jones, Julia P.G.   +3 more
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The Social Psychology Of Perception Experiments: Hills, Backpacks, Glucose, And The Problem Of Generalizability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Experiments take place in a physical environment but also a social environment. Generalizability from experimental manipulations to more typical contexts may be limited by violations of ecological validity with respect to either the physical or the ...
Durgin, Frank H.   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Affording Sustainability: Adopting a Theory of Affordances as a Guiding Heuristic for Environmental Policy

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Human behavior is an underlying cause for many of the ecological crises faced in the 21st century, and there is no escaping from the fact that widespread behavior change is necessary for socio-ecological systems to take a sustainable turn.
Roope O. Kaaronen
doaj   +1 more source

False claims about false memory research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Pezdek and Lam [Pezdek, K. & Lam, S. (2007). What research paradigms have cognitive psychologists used to study “False memory,” and what are the implications of these choices?
Amina Memon   +81 more
core   +1 more source

Attentional actions – an ecological-enactive account of utterances of concrete words

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2018
This paper proposes an ecological-enactive account of utterances of concrete words - words used to indicate observable situations, events, objects, or characteristics. Building on the education of attention model of learning, utterances of concrete words
Van Den Herik Jasper C.
doaj   +1 more source

Orientation in the environment like perceiving affordances? Andrzej Lewicki’s account of cognition

open access: yesZagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
The purpose of this article is to present Andrzej Lewicki’s account of cognition as orientation in the environment, comparing it with James J. Gibson’s ecological psychology.
Michał Piekarski, Witold Wachowski
doaj   +1 more source

The Mental Lives of Sheep and the Quest for a Psychological Taxonomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this commentary on Marino and Merskin's "Intelligence, complexity, and individuality in sheep", I argue that their literature review provides further evidence of the fundamental theoretical shift in psychology towards a non-anthropocentric ...
Figdor, Carrie
core   +2 more sources

Toward an ecological aesthetics: music as emergence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In this article we intend to suggest some ecological based principles to support the possibility of develop an ecological aesthetics. We consider that an ecological aesthetics is founded in concepts as “direct perception”, “acquisition of affordances and
Oliveira, A. L. G., Oliveira, L. F.
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HRM, organizational capacity for change, and performance: a global perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This special issue brings together a variety of articles, each one enriching understanding about whether and how human resource management (HRM) influences organizational performance (however defined) against a backdrop of complex change.
Antila   +46 more
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