Bridging Ecological Rehabilitation and Socio Cognitive Psychology

Bridging Social and Cognitive Psychology?

When I was asked to comment on the benefits and costs of bridging cognitive psychology, my own field of research, with social psychology, I thought this was easy—the more so as I have a social-psychological background myself (Schultz-Gambard, Feierabend, & Hommel, 1988; Schultz-Gambard & Hommel, 1987). However, addressing this issue requires one to define what a cognitive and a social psycholog...

Bridging Social and Cognitive Psychology – 1 Bridging Social and Cognitive Psychology?

Social and cognitive psychologists differ less and less in terms of the topics they investigate or the methods they use. And yet, they tend to prefer different grain sizes of theorizing, which makes—and is likely to keep making—communication between these disciplines difficult. I suggest to bear these difficulties because they imply differences in perspective that are crucial for addressing and...

Ecological and Socio-ecological Economic Models

Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience/Cognitive Psychology and the Brain

Introduction Imagine the following situation: A young man, let’s call him Knut, is sitting at his desk reading some papers which he needs to complete a psychology assignment. In his right hand he holds a cup of coffee. With his left one he reaches for a bag of sweets without removing the focus of his eyes from the paper. Suddenly he stares up to the ceiling of his room and asks himself: “What i...

First Step Toward Bridging Ecological and Socio-Economic Systems: Linking Thermodynamics, Complexity, and Sustainability

Challenges related to achieving sustainable social-ecological systems (SES) are transforming science and its role in society. Over the past few decades, integrated sciences such as sustainability science and complex systems science have emerged as fields of research and education, which transcend disciplinary boundaries and focus on understanding of the dynamics of complex SES. A social-ecologi...