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Affordances, Social Media and the Criminogenic Nature of the Internet: Technology-Mediated Child Sexual Abuse
In September 2019, The New York Times reported that in the previous year, technology companies reported to the US National Center for Missing &...
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Ten dos and don’ts of Character Strengths Research
While both practitioners and the public regard character strengths positively, some psychologists and philosophers harbor skepticism. In this...
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A Path to Ecological Psychology
This short essay describes the origin of my intellectual interest in James Gibson’s An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. I came to Gibson’s...
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What Gestures (Can We) Afford? On the Resourcefulness of Tectonics in Architecture and Engineering
Describing an ecological correspondence between animal and environment, the notion affordances stemming from the field of perception psychology marks...
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An Environmental Neuroscience Perspective on the Benefits of Nature
Environmental neuroscience is a field which uses multiple scales of analysis to elucidate the ways in which the physical environment interacts with...
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A Personal Introduction
In the following short introduction, I describe my first encounter with affordance as an architect migrating into cognitive neuroscience and how my...
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A theoretical essay on socio-technical systems design thinking in the era of digital transformation
Digital technology is here to stay. Currently, digital technologies are unleashing the fourth industrial revolution. This so-called digital...
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A “Post-digital” Continuum of Young People’s Experiences of Online Harms
Studies suggest that young people’s lives are digitally mediated and the risks and opportunities of being online are experienced and given meaning at...
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Children’s Daily Activity Patterns and the Influence of Multilevel Ecological Factors
BackgroundChildren’s time use is a complex developmental phenomenon in need of a more in-depth, detailed understanding.
ObjectiveThe present study...
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Fiber Arts Require Spatial Skills: How a Stereotypically Feminine Practice Can Help Us Understand Spatial Skills and Improve Spatial Learning
In this review, we propose that fiber arts – a wide array of practices that use string, yarn, and fabric to create functional and fine art textiles –...
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A Modern Framework of Wellbeing from the Perspective of Positive Environments
Positive environments (PEs) are traditionally understood as contexts that provide the material and social resources necessary to allow individuals to...
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Perceiving “Natural” Environments: An Ecological Perspective with Reflections on the Chapters
The way that psychologists conceptualize the nature of visual perception directly influences the way they conceptualize the environment from a...
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The Natural-Built Distinction in Environmental Preference and Restoration: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Explanations
People tend to find natural environments more aesthetically appealing and restorative than human-made or built environments. It is widely assumed...
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Beyond Gendered/Sexed Sexual Response: Debunking Essentialism, Revisiting Experience, and Centering Women’s Sexual Pleasure
The experience of sexual pleasure is foundational to sexual arousal and desire. Despite a universal potential for experiencing sexual pleasure, sex...
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Organizational Culture as a Need-Fulfillment System: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice
At the time of this writing, the business concept most vigorously championed by management consultants is the construct of organizational culture ....
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Canaries and Bellwethers: What Can We Learn About Racial Justice from Studying Ethnic-Racial Identity Within and Across Groups?
In this chapter, we argue that the study of ethnic-racial identity (ERI) in youth can benefit from an explicit orientation to racial justice. We...
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Income and Sex Moderate the Association Between Population Density and Reproduction: A Multilevel Analysis of Life History Strategies Across 23 Nations
While previous studies guided by evolutionary life history theory have revealed several important socioecological moderators of the influence of...
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The Psycho-criminology of Burial Sites: Developing the Winthropping Method for Locating Clandestine Burial Sites
The majority of geographical profiling research focuses on the relationship between offender and location, which works particularly well when a...
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Time, Technology, and Teams: From GSS to Collective Action
Early work in group support systems synthesized decades of research on group development and examined their relevance for what was then an emerging...
