Stephen Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 515 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Authorial Authenticity or Theological Polemics? Discerning the Implications of Śaṅkara’s Battle with the Buddhists
Interacting with nature improves cognition and affect for individuals with depression
Directed Attention as a Common Resource for Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation
Research on executive functioning and on self-regulation have each identified a critical resource that is central to that domain and is susceptible to depletion. In addition, studies have shown that self-regulation tasks and executive-functioning tasks interact with each other, suggesting that they may share resources. Other research has focused specifically on restoring what we propose is the shared resource between self-regulation and executive…
A Field Experiment in Capitated Payment Systems and Recovery Management
Against the backdrop of shifting perspectives regarding substance abuse policy, upcoming changes to the health care system, and progress toward parity for mental health and substance abuse treatment, an exploratory pilot study is being conducted in San Mateo County, California, to assess the potential of a capitated case rate combined with a recovery management approach in a community-based substance abuse treatment program for women. The rationa…
The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting With Nature
We compare the restorative effects on cognitive functioning of interactions with natural versus urban environments. Attention restoration theory (ART) provides an analysis of the kinds of environments that lead to improvements in directed-attention abilities. Nature, which is filled with intriguing stimuli, modestly grabs attention in a bottom-up fashion, allowing top-down directed-attention abilities a chance to replenish. Unlike natural environ…
Revisiting K. C. Bhattacharyya's concept of the absolute and its alternative forms
Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, one of the preeminent Indian philosophers of the 20th century, proposed that the absolute appears in three alternative forms – truth, freedom and value. Each of these forms are for Bhattacharyya absolute, ultimate, not penultimate. Each is different from the other, yet they cannot be said to be one or many. He contends that these absolutes are incompatible with each other and that an articulation of the relation betw…
Health, Supportive Environments, and the Reasonable Person Model
The Reasonable Person Model is a conceptual framework that links environmental factors with human behavior. People are more reasonable, cooperative, helpful, and satisfied when the environment supports their basic informational needs. The same environmental supports are important factors in enhancing human health. We use this framework to identify the informational requirements common to various health-promoting factors that are realizable throug…
Meditation, Restoration, and the Management of Mental Fatigue
An analysis of the underlying similarities between the Eastern meditation tradition and attention restoration theory (ART) provides a basis for an expanded framework for studying directed attention. The focus of the analysis is the active role the individual can play in the preservation and recovery of the directed attention capacity. Two complementary strategies are presented that can help individuals more effectively manage their attentional re…
New Ways to Promote Proenvironmental Behavior
This article constitutes a search for a people‐oriented approach to encouraging environmentally responsible behavior. It attempts to provide a source of motivations, reduce the corrosive sense of helplessness, and generatesolutions to environmental problems that do not undermine the quality of life of the people who are affected. The altruism‐centered approach currently popular in the academic literature, by contrast, is seen as contributing to h…
With People in Mind
Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity
The corporate back‐40
Peer Reviewed
Culture, genre and the Māndūkya Kārikā
Daniel H. H. Ingalls referred to Gaudapāda's Māndūkya Kārikā, a very early Advaita text, as ‘ ... the most puzzling perhaps, of all Sanskrit philosophical texts’. This article shows that some of the philosophical quandaries associated with this text are the result of inappropriately imposing a graphic and prose model of textuality upon a text composed in the kārikā (memorial verse) genre and in an oral cultural context. Developing a model of text…
The restorative benefits of nature
The Museum as a Restorative Environment
Museums seem to be ideal environments for a restorative experience. A collection of objects both aesthetic and fascinating would seem appropriate for aiding the recovery of directed attention, and perhaps for reflection as well. Yet, according to anecdotal reports, museums often seem tedious and tiring. The authors explore this apparent paradox both theoretically, in the context of attention restoration theory, and empirically. Study 1, a content…
Hermeneutics, Holography and Indian Idealism
This work is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of the notion of projection. Advaita Vedanta informs us that mind is projected 'out-there' into the world during perception. Is this notion of projection ridiculous and can it simply be ignored when studing Advaita texts? The answer to both questions is no
Active symbols and internal models
Environmental Preference
This article examines four domains of variables to assess their relative merit in explaining environmental preference. Within each of the domains, between three and seven specific attributes were measured, for a total of 20 predictor variables. The study site includes small forested areas, agricultural land, and fields, with little topographic variation. Preference ratings of 59 scenes representing the area serve as the dependent variable. Taken …
The Visual Environment
In the process of making environmental decisions, many intangible qualities of considerable psychological significance tend to be ignored. The difficulty of measuring intangibles and the frustration inherent in commonly used methods of obtaining public input are major obstacles to correcting this unfortunate situation. In this paper we suggest a strategy for overcoming these difficulties. A procedure is presented for obtaining public input with r…
Aesthetics, Affect, and Cognition
Scenes of the outdoor physical environment vary substantially in the extent to which they are preferred. Variables empirically found to predict preference can be analyzed both in terms of their information-processing implications and in terms of their evolutionary significance. Some of these predictors appear to require fairly extensive information processing, thus supporting the hypothesis that a rapid, unconscious type of cognition may precede …
Affect and cognition in the context of home
A Model of Person-Environment Compatibility
The patterns of information available in the environment are often ignored in analyses of the fit or congruence between person and environment. By viewing such information patterns (in conjunction with the environmental constraints on behavior and the individual's purposes) as potential sources of incompatibility, it is possible to understand a substantially wider range of human-environment relationships. From this perspective, person-environment…
Mind, Maya, and Holography
The prediction of preference for unfamiliar urban places
Rated preference and complexity for natural and urban visual material
The restorative benefits of nature
New Ways to Promote Proenvironmental Behavior
This article constitutes a search for a people‐oriented approach to encouraging environmentally responsible behavior. It attempts to provide a source of motivations, reduce the corrosive sense of helplessness, and generatesolutions to environmental problems that do not undermine the quality of life of the people who are affected. The altruism‐centered approach currently popular in the academic literature, by contrast, is seen as contributing to h…
The Visual Environment
In the process of making environmental decisions, many intangible qualities of considerable psychological significance tend to be ignored. The difficulty of measuring intangibles and the frustration inherent in commonly used methods of obtaining public input are major obstacles to correcting this unfortunate situation. In this paper we suggest a strategy for overcoming these difficulties. A procedure is presented for obtaining public input with r…
Health, Supportive Environments, and the Reasonable Person Model
The Reasonable Person Model is a conceptual framework that links environmental factors with human behavior. People are more reasonable, cooperative, helpful, and satisfied when the environment supports their basic informational needs. The same environmental supports are important factors in enhancing human health. We use this framework to identify the informational requirements common to various health-promoting factors that are realizable throug…
The prediction of preference for unfamiliar urban places
The challenge of environmental psychology
Peer Reviewed
Authorial Authenticity or Theological Polemics? Discerning the Implications of Śaṅkara’s Battle with the Buddhists
Rated preference and complexity for natural and urban visual material
The challenge of environmental psychology
Peer Reviewed
The prediction of preference for unfamiliar urban places
A Model of Person-Environment Compatibility
The patterns of information available in the environment are often ignored in analyses of the fit or congruence between person and environment. By viewing such information patterns (in conjunction with the environmental constraints on behavior and the individual's purposes) as potential sources of incompatibility, it is possible to understand a substantially wider range of human-environment relationships. From this perspective, person-environment…
Mind, Maya, and Holography
Affect and cognition in the context of home
Aesthetics, Affect, and Cognition
Scenes of the outdoor physical environment vary substantially in the extent to which they are preferred. Variables empirically found to predict preference can be analyzed both in terms of their information-processing implications and in terms of their evolutionary significance. Some of these predictors appear to require fairly extensive information processing, thus supporting the hypothesis that a rapid, unconscious type of cognition may precede …
Environmental Preference
This article examines four domains of variables to assess their relative merit in explaining environmental preference. Within each of the domains, between three and seven specific attributes were measured, for a total of 20 predictor variables. The study site includes small forested areas, agricultural land, and fields, with little topographic variation. Preference ratings of 59 scenes representing the area serve as the dependent variable. Taken …
The Visual Environment
In the process of making environmental decisions, many intangible qualities of considerable psychological significance tend to be ignored. The difficulty of measuring intangibles and the frustration inherent in commonly used methods of obtaining public input are major obstacles to correcting this unfortunate situation. In this paper we suggest a strategy for overcoming these difficulties. A procedure is presented for obtaining public input with r…
Active symbols and internal models
Hermeneutics, Holography and Indian Idealism
This work is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of the notion of projection. Advaita Vedanta informs us that mind is projected 'out-there' into the world during perception. Is this notion of projection ridiculous and can it simply be ignored when studing Advaita texts? The answer to both questions is no
The Museum as a Restorative Environment
Museums seem to be ideal environments for a restorative experience. A collection of objects both aesthetic and fascinating would seem appropriate for aiding the recovery of directed attention, and perhaps for reflection as well. Yet, according to anecdotal reports, museums often seem tedious and tiring. The authors explore this apparent paradox both theoretically, in the context of attention restoration theory, and empirically. Study 1, a content…
The restorative benefits of nature
Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity
The corporate back‐40
Peer Reviewed
Culture, genre and the Māndūkya Kārikā
Daniel H. H. Ingalls referred to Gaudapāda's Māndūkya Kārikā, a very early Advaita text, as ‘ ... the most puzzling perhaps, of all Sanskrit philosophical texts’. This article shows that some of the philosophical quandaries associated with this text are the result of inappropriately imposing a graphic and prose model of textuality upon a text composed in the kārikā (memorial verse) genre and in an oral cultural context. Developing a model of text…
With People in Mind
New Ways to Promote Proenvironmental Behavior
This article constitutes a search for a people‐oriented approach to encouraging environmentally responsible behavior. It attempts to provide a source of motivations, reduce the corrosive sense of helplessness, and generatesolutions to environmental problems that do not undermine the quality of life of the people who are affected. The altruism‐centered approach currently popular in the academic literature, by contrast, is seen as contributing to h…
Meditation, Restoration, and the Management of Mental Fatigue
An analysis of the underlying similarities between the Eastern meditation tradition and attention restoration theory (ART) provides a basis for an expanded framework for studying directed attention. The focus of the analysis is the active role the individual can play in the preservation and recovery of the directed attention capacity. Two complementary strategies are presented that can help individuals more effectively manage their attentional re…
Health, Supportive Environments, and the Reasonable Person Model
The Reasonable Person Model is a conceptual framework that links environmental factors with human behavior. People are more reasonable, cooperative, helpful, and satisfied when the environment supports their basic informational needs. The same environmental supports are important factors in enhancing human health. We use this framework to identify the informational requirements common to various health-promoting factors that are realizable throug…
Revisiting K. C. Bhattacharyya's concept of the absolute and its alternative forms
Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, one of the preeminent Indian philosophers of the 20th century, proposed that the absolute appears in three alternative forms – truth, freedom and value. Each of these forms are for Bhattacharyya absolute, ultimate, not penultimate. Each is different from the other, yet they cannot be said to be one or many. He contends that these absolutes are incompatible with each other and that an articulation of the relation betw…
The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting With Nature
We compare the restorative effects on cognitive functioning of interactions with natural versus urban environments. Attention restoration theory (ART) provides an analysis of the kinds of environments that lead to improvements in directed-attention abilities. Nature, which is filled with intriguing stimuli, modestly grabs attention in a bottom-up fashion, allowing top-down directed-attention abilities a chance to replenish. Unlike natural environ…
Directed Attention as a Common Resource for Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation
Research on executive functioning and on self-regulation have each identified a critical resource that is central to that domain and is susceptible to depletion. In addition, studies have shown that self-regulation tasks and executive-functioning tasks interact with each other, suggesting that they may share resources. Other research has focused specifically on restoring what we propose is the shared resource between self-regulation and executive…
A Field Experiment in Capitated Payment Systems and Recovery Management
Against the backdrop of shifting perspectives regarding substance abuse policy, upcoming changes to the health care system, and progress toward parity for mental health and substance abuse treatment, an exploratory pilot study is being conducted in San Mateo County, California, to assess the potential of a capitated case rate combined with a recovery management approach in a community-based substance abuse treatment program for women. The rationa…
Interacting with nature improves cognition and affect for individuals with depression
Psychology (19 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (13 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works)