Editorial: Enaction and Ecological Psychology: Convergences and Complementarities

Enaction and Psychology

The enactive approach to cognitive science aims to provide an account of the mind that is both naturalistic and nonreductive. Psychological activity is viewed not as occurring within the individual organism but in the engagement between the motivated autonomous agent and their context (including their social context). The approach has been developing within the fields of philosophy, artificial ...

Editorial: Psychology and Policy

Editorial on the Research Topic Psychology and Policy Policies are population interventions aimed at guiding choices and behaviors to achieve a desired, repeated outcome. They involve sets of decisions, and standards used by a group when dealing with significant or common—or both—challenges. These scenarios typically require standardized approaches to ensure the most ideal outcome, whether quan...

Aligning Economic and Ecological Priorities: Conflicts, Complementarities, and Regulatory Frictions

Four key policy challenges, framed here as dichotomies, are commonly associated with attempts to improve the use of natural resources in the socioecological commons. These dichotomies present tradeoffs when addressing market failures and in general seem to suggest the need to settle for second-best outcomes rather than first-best outcomes identified in stylized models. Citing examples, we argue...

Hutchins: Enaction Enaction, imagination, and insight

Introduction Distributed cognition is a framework for exploring the cognitive implications of the commonsense observation that in systems characterized by multiple levels of interacting elements, different properties may emerge at different levels of organization. Thus, a colony of social insects has different properties than any At the level of organisms, bodies have different properties than ...

Editorial: The Psychology of Magic and the Magic of Psychology