Conservation Psychology

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  Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

  By Susan Clayton, O. Gene Myers

  Grantham and Nichols (2002) elaborate on this by comparing the case of physiology. The functions and structures of the major organs were fully understood long before evolution was available as an explanation of their origins, ...

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  Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

  By Susan Clayton, Gene Myers

  Cordell, H. K., Betz, C. J., Stephens, B., Mou, S. & Green, G. T. (2008). How do Americans view wilderness – Part 1. Athens, GA: USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, University of Georgia, Athens, ...

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  Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

  By Susan Clayton, Gene Myers

  ... be named after his or her favorite cattle, the center of the Nuer cultural system (Evans-Pritchard, 1940). Totemism entails the identification of social groups with animals (Lévi-Strauss, 1966). Anthropologists Crocker (1985) and ...

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  Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

  By Susan Clayton, Gene Myers

  Winter (2000, Winter & Koger, 2004; see also Gifford, 2011) describes how psychological defenses interfere with the rational perception of environmental realities. Defensive thinking results when our basic wants, such as the desire for ...

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  Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

  By Susan Clayton, Gene Myers

  Mayer, F. S., Frantz, C. M., Bruehlman-Senecal, E., & Dolliver, K. (2009). Why is nature beneficial?: The role of connectedness ... In S.I. Donaldson, M. Csikszentmihalyi & J. Nakamura (Eds.), Applied positive psychology (pp. 185–202).