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Toward an Epistemology of Talent Development and Human Excellence
This chapter examines methodologies in the field of research on talent development (TD), highlighting the adoption of a balanced approach that... -
A Walk in the Park: Affordance as Urban Design Tool for Creating Inhabitable Cities
The relationship between humans and the material environment is straightforward in our experience of it. And yet, it is complex in its inner workings... -
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Comparing and Contrasting Rates of Firearm Homicides and Suicides
The present research investigates relations among social-biogeographic factors (i.e., temperature, parasite burden, poverty rate, firearm possession...
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EFL teachers’ engagement-promoting strategies in online gamification: an ecological systems theory (EST) perspective
This study investigated the strategies Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers perceived to use to promote EFL learners’ engagement in...
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Psychophysiological methods to study the triggers of interest: a Singapore case study
Interest is an essential motivational component that plays a significant role in learning. It is therefore important to have a better understanding...
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Serendipity
Serendipity is a fortuitous accident; the exploitation of luck by a prepared mind. It is a framework for understanding how luck becomes actualized... -
Truth and Mind: How Embodied Concepts Constrain How We Define Truth in Psychological Science
‘Is truth dead?’ reads the cover of Time magazine in April 2017 (Pine, 2017). Culture wars, fake news, alternative facts, post-truth politics, echo... -
The visual size of graspable objects is needed to induce the potentiation of grasping behaviors even with verbal stimuli
Merely perceiving objects usually grasped with a power or a precision grip (e.g., an apple vs. a cherry) potentiate power-grip and precision-grip...
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Visitors and Conservation: Seeking Behavior
What makes an aquarium or zoo a ‘conservation’ organization? And what does ‘conservation’ mean in the context of a zoo or aquarium? In this chapter,... -
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Easy as 1, 2, 3: On the Short History of the Use of Affordance in Active Inference
This short editorial is about the manner in which the construct of affordance figures in the active inference framework. First, I review the short... -
Concepts, Language, and Early Socialization in the Indigenous Wichi Perspective: Toward a Relational–Ecological Paradigm
The Cartesian-Split-Mechanistic framework has worked as the standard Epistemic Paradigm within developmental science. However, two pervasive... -
The 4Es and the 4As (Affect, Agency, Affordance, Autonomy) in the Meshed Architecture of Social Cognition
This chapter builds on the modelModels of a meshed architectureMeshed architecture introduced by (Christensen et al., Mind & Language 31:37–66, 2016)... -
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Creating Spaces for Ruptions and Provocations
This chapter lays the ground for how ethical, care-ful (Haraway, When species meet. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008) educational... -
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Adjacent Possible
Adjacent, i.e., nearby, possibilities constantly emerge in a multitude of settings for a multitude of entities. When these possibilities are... -
Embodiment of Going Downhill: Scaffolding of Movement Experience
Psychology needs to view the human being in its full reality—which is constant movement. This is rarely taken in account in theories that usually...
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Architectural Psychological Concepts
Concepts and theories go beyond assumptions and mere descriptions by explaining the causal relationships between environmental conditions and human...