Ecological affordances across the lifespan: Refinements and Extensions through interdisciplinary perspectives
Ahra Ko1,2, Steven L Neuberg2
1The Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA dr.ahrako@gmail.com.
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Twenty-nine commentaries suggest refinements offering greater conceptual granularity; empirical extensions across additional life stages/phases, ecologies, and species; mechanistic proposals; and meta-theoretical reflections. Collectively, they underscore broad consensus on the value of an affordance management approach grounded in life-history logic for understanding human-environment interaction, and they highlight the importance of lifelong flexibility in how individuals perceive and manage ecological affordances.
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