Statistical mediation allows researchers to investigate potential causal effects of experimental manipulations through intervening variables. It is a powerful tool for assessing the presence and strength of postulated causal mechanisms. Although mediation is used in certain areas of psychology, it is rarely applied in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. One reason for the scarcity of applica...

Conservationists recognize that many protected areas have limited future prospects without the cooperation and support of local people, especially in developing countries. Since the 1980s Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) have attempted to reconcile park management with local needs and aspirations, usually with disappointing results. Achieving local cooperation and suppor...

Ecological psychology teaches us that intelligence exists in an environment. We explore the combination of competitive evolution, and an interactive environment. A population of network controller weights are evolved, and robots using those weights compete in a hockey-like game. The behavior produced is neither as consistent nor as complex as hoped for, and a variety of causes, and potential re...

Although institutional discourse is subject to a vast ensemble of constraints, its design is not fixed beforehand. On the contrary, optimizing the satisfaction of these constraints requires considerable discourse design skills from institutional agents. In this article, we analyze how Dutch banks' mortgage advisors navigate their way through the consultations context. We focus on what we call d...

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T he experimental synthesis of behaviour is a programme for the unification of psychology. The central core of the theory is behaviour analysis, and its aim is to explain the findings of contemporary psychology in behavioural concepts. The experimental synthesis of behaviour is not ‘‘eclectic.’’ Following a post-Kuhnian description, the author states that psychological schools were analogous to...