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  1. 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...
    Chapter 2023
  2. 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...
    Ditte Bendix Lanng, Ole B. Jensen in Affordances in Everyday Life
    Chapter 2022
  3. Social Affordance

    Eros Moreira de Carvalho in Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior
    Reference work entry 2022
  4. 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...

    Rachel Christine Zambrano, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, ... W. Jake Jacobs in Evolutionary Psychological Science
    Article 03 March 2022
  5. 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...

    Saman Ebadi, Reza Bozorg Aliabadi, Zahra Fakher Ajabshir in Current Psychology
    Article 22 May 2024
  6. 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...

    Aik Lim Tan, Robyn Gillies, Azilawati Jamaludin in Current Psychology
    Article 07 November 2022
  7. Serendipity

    Serendipity is a fortuitous accident; the exploitation of luck by a prepared mind. It is a framework for understanding how luck becomes actualized...
    Reference work entry 2022
  8. 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...
    Heath Matheson in Experimental Psychology
    Chapter 2022
  9. 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...

    Mohamed Halim Harrak, Loïc P. Heurley, ... Vincent Dru in Psychological Research
    Article 22 January 2022
  10. 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,...
    Joe E. Heimlich, Nicole M. Ardoin in Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind
    Chapter 2023
  11. 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...
    Maxwell J. D. Ramstead in Affordances in Everyday Life
    Chapter 2022
  12. 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...
    Andrea Taverna, Migdalia Padilla, ... María Celeste Baiocchi in Cognitive Sciences and Education in Non-WEIRD Populations
    Chapter 2022
  13. 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)...
    Shaun Gallagher in Handbook of Embodied Psychology
    Chapter 2021
  14. 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...
    Chapter Open access 2024
  15. Adjacent Possible

    Adjacent, i.e., nearby, possibilities constantly emerge in a multitude of settings for a multitude of entities. When these possibilities are...
    Reference work entry 2022
  16. 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...

    Lisa-Marie Geberth in Human Arenas
    Article 04 March 2020
  17. Architectural Psychological Concepts

    Concepts and theories go beyond assumptions and mere descriptions by explaining the causal relationships between environmental conditions and human...
    Chapter 2021
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