Ecological Values Theory: Beyond Conformity, Goal-Seeking, and Rule-Following in Action and Interaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 108926802110481
Author(s):  
Bert H. Hodges ◽  
Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Rule Following ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Ecological Values ◽  
Critical Constraints ◽  
Perception Action

Values have long been considered important for psychology but are frequently characterized as beliefs, goals, rules, or norms. Ecological values theory locates them, not in people or in objects, but in ecosystem relationships and the demands those relationships place on fields of action within the system. To test the worth of this approach, we consider skilled coordination tasks in social psychology (e.g., negotiating disagreements, synchrony and asynchrony in interactions, and selectivity in social learning) and perception-action (e.g., driving vehicles and carrying a child). Evidence suggests that a diverse array of values (e.g., truth, social solidarity, justice, flexibility, safety, and comfort) work in a cooperative tension to guide actions. Values emerge as critical constraints on action that differ from goals, rules, and natural laws, and yet provide the larger context in which they can function effectively. Prospects and challenges for understanding values and their role in action, including theoretical and methodological issues, are considered.

Psychology of the Scientist: XLX. Frequently Cited Research on Human Aggression

1985 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Bushman ◽  
H. S. Bertilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Experimental Social Psychology ◽  
Social Psychology Bulletin ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Human Aggression ◽  
Learning Analysis

This article reports a citation analysis of research on human aggression. Citations from articles on aggression were culled from Aggressive Behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin for the 3-yr. period 1980–1982. Out of 1194 books and journal articles, 35 were cited three or more times and were included in this list of influential publications. The three most often cited publications were Baron's Human aggression, Bandura's Aggression: a social learning analysis, and Buss' The psychology of aggression. The frequency of citation by author was also analyzed and reported.

Ecological psychology as social psychology?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 813-826
Author(s):  
Harry Heft
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Ecological Psychology ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Behavior Settings ◽  
Conceptual Nature ◽  
Perception Action

Several articles published in this journal over a number of years have examined the social dimensions of Gibsonian ecological psychology. The present paper picks up several of their themes, with an emphasis on the social developmental consequences of individuals participating in community structures and engaging the affordances that support them. From this perspective, the situated nature of activity in everyday settings is examined, which in turn highlights the role of places as higher order emergent eco-psychological structures (or behavior settings) in everyday life. Moreover, ecological psychology’s discovery of occluding edge effects, which demonstrates that objects that have gone out of sight are experienced as persisting in awareness, serves as the basis for a proposal that the awareness of social structures of a conceptual nature may arise from the pragmatics of perception–action from an ecological perspective.

Family Structure in African Fertility Studies: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-335
Author(s):  
Osei-Mensah Aborampah
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
Psychology And Economics ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, an attempt is made to define the African family as it relates to reproduction. A review of the theoretical discussions and empirical studies indicates that none of the earlier conceptualizations of family structure is adequate enough for analyzing the relationship between family structure and fertility. It is suggested that three major dimensions, social structure, social-psychology and economics, underlie the African family structure and that their full understanding is essential to a meaningful analysis of the role of kinship networks in Africa's population growth. Indeed, the issues involved in the study of the fertility of African, especially rural, women may not be fully understood until the ramifications of the African family and kinship networks are fully understood and adequately conceptualized.

Methodological Issues in Applied Social Psychology.

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 594 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Crano ◽  
Fred B. Bryant ◽  
John Edwards ◽  
R. Scott Tindale ◽  
Emil J. Posavac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Applied Social Psychology

Ecological pragmatics

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Context Sensitivity ◽  
Perceptual System ◽  
Action Perception ◽  
First Order ◽  
Perception System ◽  
Ecological Values ◽  
System 1 ◽  
Perception Action ◽  
Cognitive Dimensions

This paper explores the hypothesis that first-order linguistic activities are better understood in terms of ecological, values-realizing dynamics rather than in terms of rule-governed processes. Conversing, like other perception-action skills (e.g., driving) is constrained by multiple values, heterarchically organized. This hypothesis is explored in terms of three broad approaches that contrast with models of language which view it as a cognitive system: (1) conversing as a perceptual system for exploring dialogical arrays (Hodges 2007a); (2) conversing as an action system for integrating diverse space-time scales (Van Orden 2007); and (3) conversing as a caring system for embodying the context-sensitivity and interdependency necessary to realize values (Hodges 2007b). Approaching language as a caring action-perception system leads to a reconsideration of cognitive dimensions of linguistic activities, including consciousness, pragmatics, suffering, and hope.

Behavioral Psychology and the Bible: General and Specific Considerations

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward P. Bolin ◽  
Glenn M. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Methodological Behaviorism ◽  
Behavioral Psychology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social

Behavioral psychology has been slow in being accepted as a viable source of theological integration because of the questions it raises concerning man's freedom, dignity, self-control, and responsibility. Although these are valid concerns of philosophical behaviorism, they are merely pseudo-issues regarding methodological behaviorism. Reflecting the natural laws of God's universe, methodological behaviorism integrates with Scripture on many points. One of the most obvious integrative points is in the area of eschatology and the social learning theory of positive reinforcement, since goals, anticipation, expectancy, and rewards work as incentives in both Biblical eschatology and behavioral reinforcement.

scholarly journals Aso-Ebi (Group Uniform): An Imported Symbolic Culture That Projects Solidarity And Cohesion in Traditional Igbo Cosmology

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 4461-4473
Author(s):  
Madukasi Francis Chuks.
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Cloth Production ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Hidden Knowledge

It is a known fact that every culture has the responsibility of describing reality, its origin and models of structural development as well as the hidden knowledge and truth about being. This responsibility is evidently illustrated, addressed or depicted in Igbo paradigm in form of symbols. Devoid of these symbols, signs and images, the traditional life experiences of the Igbo’s will completely be void, abstract and meaningless because some of these symbols represented in tangible visible forms were believed to be real and living. This paper focuses towards understanding Aso-ebi cloth in the Igbo context through the examination of the dynamics of the cloth production, patronage, consumption and social significance of dress projecting high social solidarity and powerful cohesion in traditional Igbo paradigm. The proper underpinning of this social psychology of Aso-ebi cloth on the indigenous people of the Igbo’s will go a long way in the full integration of the Igbo people’s life and their immediate cultural ecology with messages it disseminate. It must be noted also that despite the significance of this integration, it must be informed that such is evidently limited in their transmission of reality. This paper investigates how the Aso-ebi clothe although an imported culture from the Yoruba tradition basically play significant roles in mediating and facilitating religious communication in Igbo Traditional Religion, giving rise to thought, interpretation, and symbolic meanings. In Igbo cosmology and leadership, the Aso-ebi fabrics encapsulate so many things which are very distinctive thereby representing so many things and ideologies.

Psychodigms of Theory in Personality and Social Psychology

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Heilizer
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
The Status

It is the contention of this paper that personality psychology and social psychology have developed different orientations to theory. Pronouncements of crisis emanating from each area are presumed to reflect these divergent developments. The orientation of social psychology, by means of situationism in social learning theory, is toward data-driven, empirical constructs and theories with a major cognitive content. The data-driven, empirical nature of constructs and theories in situationism emphasizes the primacy of the data in developing the constructs and of asking limited, focussed questions. The orientation of personality psychology, by means of person-situation interactionism, is towards the more traditional concept-driven constructs and theories which emphasize the importance of extensive conceptual systems and broad semantic descriptions. These two orientations are seen as representing Kuhnian paradigms—herein called psychodigms—of different degrees of development. Situationism has developed from and within the Lewinian tradition and has achieved the status of a fully developed psychodigm for social psychology. Interactionism has developed more recently as a result of attacks by situationists on the psychoanalytically relevant constructs of motivation and trait and functions to conserve these constructs as concept-driven and as part of the person in the interaction. The newness of interactionism as the major orientation for personality psychology has produced, at most, a partially developed psychodigm. It is expected that the energizing and conformity-producing effect of a fully developed psychodigm is overwhelming as compared to the undetermined, and incompletely formed, power of a partially developed psychodigm. Judgments about the state of theory in, and future of, personality and social psychology may require consideration of the divergent psychodigms of theory.

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