Daniel L Dustin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel L Dustin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dustin |
| SIGNATURE | DUSTIN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure
The purpose of this research reflection is to revisit the foundations upon which we constitute our understanding of the good life. Specifically, we think it is important for our field to unmoor itself from the myth that the advent of agriculture led to increased leisure time. To make our case, we recount two strikingly different narratives of the settings in which leisure is proported to flourish that we believe help us make sense of the current …
Lessons from The Fuller Life Man
This paper discusses the teaching effectiveness of The Fuller Life Man, a short fictional account of a door-to-door salesman selling the necessary ingredients for living a good and purposeful life. The researchers pilot tested The Fuller Life Man in two college courses at the University of Utah, Leisure in Your Life, a general education course (n = 24), and Outdoor Recreation and Leadership, an honors college course (n = 21). Students from both c…
Sticks and Stones: Embracing Discomfort to Enhance Learning
In The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Lukianoff and Haidt contend that an atmosphere of “safetyism” threatens the university’s ability to serve as an arena for free speech and academic freedom. In this paper, we examine their thinking through one professor’s uncomfortable experience with graduate students over the question of using gendered personal pronouns in scholarly w…
Learning, Fast and Slow
In Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) Kahneman describes two modes of thinking: System 1 and 2. System 1 operates quickly, automatically, and unconsciously, drawing on our vast reservoir of stored knowledge to decide what should or should not be done in any situation. System 2 is a slower, more deliberate process, requiring us to step back from our immediate circumstances to analyze them in more depth. Kahneman praises System 1 for its efficiency in …
Thru-hikers’ smartphone use on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) runs from Mexico to Canada across the western United States. Attempting to complete the entire trail (i.e. thru-hiking) is increasingly popular. We surveyed 560 PCT thru-hikers and found that 97% carried smartphones. This study examined backcountry smartphone use along the PCT. We assessed thru-hikers’ daily smartphone use, different smartphone use behaviours, and days on the trail. Factor analysis categorized the sm…
Purveyors of One Health: The Ecological Imperative Driving the Future of Leisure Services
The coronavirus pandemic, for all of its damage to human health and well-being, has brought to light the wisdom underlying the idea of One Health, whose advocates reason that health is a reciprocal relationship between our species and the environment that sustains us. What is good for people should also be good for the environment, and what is good for the environment should also be good for people. Their preferred future is one in the same. As t…
The biochemistry behind human behavior: Implications for leisure sciences and services
This research reflection explores the relationship between biochemistry and human behavior. More specifically, it examines the implications associated with two neural pathways in the brain, one leading to pleasure and the other to contentment. After describing how the two pathways work and where they lead, we turn the reader’s attention to the implications for leisure sciences and services, including the way we think about leisure behavior, how w…
Can you take me higher?”: Normative thresholds for air quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area
Urban-proximate protected areas provide metropolitan residents with a variety of benefits. We explored the pursuit of clean air by winter outdoor recreationists who live in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area of northern Utah, a region that experiences seasonal air pollution events. To better understand how air quality in the Salt Lake Valley affects winter outdoor recreation in the nearby Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UWCNF), we employed…
Time on the trail, smartphone use, and place attachment among Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers
Five hundred fourteen (514) surveys were conducted at three intercept points along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in California and Oregon to gather information about time on the trail, smartphone use, and their relationship to thru-hikers' place attachment levels. Ninety-seven (97) percent of the thru-hikers surveyed carried smartphones and reported using them an average of 3 h and 23 min a day. Increased smartphone use was significantly associat…
The promise of a park, recreation, and tourism education in a participatory democracy
We believe the education of future park, recreation, and tourism professionals is incomplete if it does not prepare them for moral leadership in a participatory democracy. We anchor our thinking in Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture and build our case by revisiting Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, in which he admonished higher education for not preparing students, regardless of major, for assuming responsibility for their country’s m…
The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self: Implications for Leisure Science
In this research reflection we question the way leisure experience is commonly understood and how leisure science is commonly conducted. Specifically, we focus on advances in multiple self-theory popularized by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow, an in-depth examination of human thought processes. After establishing Kahneman's foundational perspective, we apply his thinking to leisure experience and leisure science by reviewing recent sch…
Towards a model of optimal family leisure
Leisure is an important component of family life, yet many families struggle to focus on or participate in family leisure. This study examined the structural characteristics of family life that can impede or promote family leisure. Employing a systems perspective, a literature-based model of family leisure was created, and in-depth interview data were gathered from three families to compare to the model. Results indicated that while the content o…
Tribute to Karla A. Henderson
It is a long way from Coggon, Iowa to the base camp at Mt. Everest. Yet as we write this tribute to Karla Henderson that is exactly where she is heading. In many respects, her current journey is a metaphor for the long distance Karla has come in life. Growing up on a farm in northeastern Iowa, and being told as an 8-year-old that girls were not allowed to play Little League baseball, Karla learned her first lesson about social injustice. Unabashe…
Toward a More Phronetic Leisure Science
In this essay, we examine the assumptions underlying natural science, social science, and the humanities. More specifically, we suggest that social science in general and leisure science in particular be guided by a different set of assumptions than those guiding natural science and the humanities. Drawing on the Aristotelian idea of phronesis, we propose that value rationality more so than instrumental rationality guide social scientific inquiry…
People and Nature: Toward an Ecological Model of Health Promotion
Striving for a healthier relationship among individuals, families, communities, nations, and the environment is imperative at a time in history when humankind can change the face of the earth in monumental ways. This dynamic health relationship, with an emphasis on the contributions of parks, recreation, and tourism to health promotion, is the subject of this article. A broader conception of health that moves beyond human physical and mental heal…
“Baseball saved us”: Recreation as refuge in a world war ii Japanese American prison camp 1
This study evaluated the role of recreation in the lives of internees at Man‐zanar, a Japanese American World War II prison camp located in California's Owens Valley. Specifically, the meaning of various art forms, organized sports and games, clubs and associations, and nature appreciation were interpreted in light of Yamato Damashii, Japanese character or spirit. The results of the study indicated that recreational pastimes were an important for…
Cross-Cultural Claims on Devils Tower National Monument: A Case Study
A dispute between American Indians and rock climbers over the appropriate use of Devils Tower National Monument in northeast Wyoming reflects fundamental differences in culture and world view. The United States Department of the Interior (USDI) National Park Service's (NPS) attempt to resolve this dispute with a voluntary ban on climbing during the month of June in deference to American Indian cultural and religious practices, and subsequent cour…
One Dog or Another: Tugging at the Strands of Social Science
On the cover of Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Ethic is a painting of an old woman at the edge of the Badlands designing quillwork on a buffalo robe. Each time the woman gets up to gather more wood for the fire, her wolf unravels all the work she has done so that when she returns she must start over. According to Lakota legend, if the old woman ever finishes her quill work it will be the end of the world (Driver, Dustin, Bal…
The Dance of the Dispossessed: On Patriarchy, Feminism and the Practice of Leisure Science
This article questions the wisdom of the patriarchal worldview underlying the practice of much contemporary social science. First, the assumptions informing such a worldview are challenged; the separation of humankind from nature, the mechanization of the Earth, and objectivity in science. Second, the limitations of a patriarchal perspective for guiding social science in general and leisure science in particular are examined. Third, ways in which…
Toward Environmental Eolithism
The Decline and Fall of Quality Recreation Opportunities and Environments
Hardining National Parks
People and Nature: Toward an Ecological Model of Health Promotion
Striving for a healthier relationship among individuals, families, communities, nations, and the environment is imperative at a time in history when humankind can change the face of the earth in monumental ways. This dynamic health relationship, with an emphasis on the contributions of parks, recreation, and tourism to health promotion, is the subject of this article. A broader conception of health that moves beyond human physical and mental heal…
Towards a model of optimal family leisure
Leisure is an important component of family life, yet many families struggle to focus on or participate in family leisure. This study examined the structural characteristics of family life that can impede or promote family leisure. Employing a systems perspective, a literature-based model of family leisure was created, and in-depth interview data were gathered from three families to compare to the model. Results indicated that while the content o…
Can you take me higher?”: Normative thresholds for air quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area
Urban-proximate protected areas provide metropolitan residents with a variety of benefits. We explored the pursuit of clean air by winter outdoor recreationists who live in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area of northern Utah, a region that experiences seasonal air pollution events. To better understand how air quality in the Salt Lake Valley affects winter outdoor recreation in the nearby Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UWCNF), we employed…
The Decline and Fall of Quality Recreation Opportunities and Environments
Time on the trail, smartphone use, and place attachment among Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers
Five hundred fourteen (514) surveys were conducted at three intercept points along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in California and Oregon to gather information about time on the trail, smartphone use, and their relationship to thru-hikers' place attachment levels. Ninety-seven (97) percent of the thru-hikers surveyed carried smartphones and reported using them an average of 3 h and 23 min a day. Increased smartphone use was significantly associat…
The Dance of the Dispossessed: On Patriarchy, Feminism and the Practice of Leisure Science
This article questions the wisdom of the patriarchal worldview underlying the practice of much contemporary social science. First, the assumptions informing such a worldview are challenged; the separation of humankind from nature, the mechanization of the Earth, and objectivity in science. Second, the limitations of a patriarchal perspective for guiding social science in general and leisure science in particular are examined. Third, ways in which…
The biochemistry behind human behavior: Implications for leisure sciences and services
This research reflection explores the relationship between biochemistry and human behavior. More specifically, it examines the implications associated with two neural pathways in the brain, one leading to pleasure and the other to contentment. After describing how the two pathways work and where they lead, we turn the reader’s attention to the implications for leisure sciences and services, including the way we think about leisure behavior, how w…
The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self: Implications for Leisure Science
In this research reflection we question the way leisure experience is commonly understood and how leisure science is commonly conducted. Specifically, we focus on advances in multiple self-theory popularized by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow, an in-depth examination of human thought processes. After establishing Kahneman's foundational perspective, we apply his thinking to leisure experience and leisure science by reviewing recent sch…
Thru-hikers’ smartphone use on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) runs from Mexico to Canada across the western United States. Attempting to complete the entire trail (i.e. thru-hiking) is increasingly popular. We surveyed 560 PCT thru-hikers and found that 97% carried smartphones. This study examined backcountry smartphone use along the PCT. We assessed thru-hikers’ daily smartphone use, different smartphone use behaviours, and days on the trail. Factor analysis categorized the sm…
Toward a More Phronetic Leisure Science
In this essay, we examine the assumptions underlying natural science, social science, and the humanities. More specifically, we suggest that social science in general and leisure science in particular be guided by a different set of assumptions than those guiding natural science and the humanities. Drawing on the Aristotelian idea of phronesis, we propose that value rationality more so than instrumental rationality guide social scientific inquiry…
Cross-Cultural Claims on Devils Tower National Monument: A Case Study
A dispute between American Indians and rock climbers over the appropriate use of Devils Tower National Monument in northeast Wyoming reflects fundamental differences in culture and world view. The United States Department of the Interior (USDI) National Park Service's (NPS) attempt to resolve this dispute with a voluntary ban on climbing during the month of June in deference to American Indian cultural and religious practices, and subsequent cour…
Hardining National Parks
Hardining National Parks
The Decline and Fall of Quality Recreation Opportunities and Environments
Toward Environmental Eolithism
The Dance of the Dispossessed: On Patriarchy, Feminism and the Practice of Leisure Science
This article questions the wisdom of the patriarchal worldview underlying the practice of much contemporary social science. First, the assumptions informing such a worldview are challenged; the separation of humankind from nature, the mechanization of the Earth, and objectivity in science. Second, the limitations of a patriarchal perspective for guiding social science in general and leisure science in particular are examined. Third, ways in which…
“Baseball saved us”: Recreation as refuge in a world war ii Japanese American prison camp 1
This study evaluated the role of recreation in the lives of internees at Man‐zanar, a Japanese American World War II prison camp located in California's Owens Valley. Specifically, the meaning of various art forms, organized sports and games, clubs and associations, and nature appreciation were interpreted in light of Yamato Damashii, Japanese character or spirit. The results of the study indicated that recreational pastimes were an important for…
Cross-Cultural Claims on Devils Tower National Monument: A Case Study
A dispute between American Indians and rock climbers over the appropriate use of Devils Tower National Monument in northeast Wyoming reflects fundamental differences in culture and world view. The United States Department of the Interior (USDI) National Park Service's (NPS) attempt to resolve this dispute with a voluntary ban on climbing during the month of June in deference to American Indian cultural and religious practices, and subsequent cour…
One Dog or Another: Tugging at the Strands of Social Science
On the cover of Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Ethic is a painting of an old woman at the edge of the Badlands designing quillwork on a buffalo robe. Each time the woman gets up to gather more wood for the fire, her wolf unravels all the work she has done so that when she returns she must start over. According to Lakota legend, if the old woman ever finishes her quill work it will be the end of the world (Driver, Dustin, Bal…
People and Nature: Toward an Ecological Model of Health Promotion
Striving for a healthier relationship among individuals, families, communities, nations, and the environment is imperative at a time in history when humankind can change the face of the earth in monumental ways. This dynamic health relationship, with an emphasis on the contributions of parks, recreation, and tourism to health promotion, is the subject of this article. A broader conception of health that moves beyond human physical and mental heal…
Toward a More Phronetic Leisure Science
In this essay, we examine the assumptions underlying natural science, social science, and the humanities. More specifically, we suggest that social science in general and leisure science in particular be guided by a different set of assumptions than those guiding natural science and the humanities. Drawing on the Aristotelian idea of phronesis, we propose that value rationality more so than instrumental rationality guide social scientific inquiry…
Tribute to Karla A. Henderson
It is a long way from Coggon, Iowa to the base camp at Mt. Everest. Yet as we write this tribute to Karla Henderson that is exactly where she is heading. In many respects, her current journey is a metaphor for the long distance Karla has come in life. Growing up on a farm in northeastern Iowa, and being told as an 8-year-old that girls were not allowed to play Little League baseball, Karla learned her first lesson about social injustice. Unabashe…
Towards a model of optimal family leisure
Leisure is an important component of family life, yet many families struggle to focus on or participate in family leisure. This study examined the structural characteristics of family life that can impede or promote family leisure. Employing a systems perspective, a literature-based model of family leisure was created, and in-depth interview data were gathered from three families to compare to the model. Results indicated that while the content o…
The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self: Implications for Leisure Science
In this research reflection we question the way leisure experience is commonly understood and how leisure science is commonly conducted. Specifically, we focus on advances in multiple self-theory popularized by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow, an in-depth examination of human thought processes. After establishing Kahneman's foundational perspective, we apply his thinking to leisure experience and leisure science by reviewing recent sch…
The biochemistry behind human behavior: Implications for leisure sciences and services
This research reflection explores the relationship between biochemistry and human behavior. More specifically, it examines the implications associated with two neural pathways in the brain, one leading to pleasure and the other to contentment. After describing how the two pathways work and where they lead, we turn the reader’s attention to the implications for leisure sciences and services, including the way we think about leisure behavior, how w…
Can you take me higher?”: Normative thresholds for air quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area
Urban-proximate protected areas provide metropolitan residents with a variety of benefits. We explored the pursuit of clean air by winter outdoor recreationists who live in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area of northern Utah, a region that experiences seasonal air pollution events. To better understand how air quality in the Salt Lake Valley affects winter outdoor recreation in the nearby Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UWCNF), we employed…
Time on the trail, smartphone use, and place attachment among Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers
Five hundred fourteen (514) surveys were conducted at three intercept points along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in California and Oregon to gather information about time on the trail, smartphone use, and their relationship to thru-hikers' place attachment levels. Ninety-seven (97) percent of the thru-hikers surveyed carried smartphones and reported using them an average of 3 h and 23 min a day. Increased smartphone use was significantly associat…
The promise of a park, recreation, and tourism education in a participatory democracy
We believe the education of future park, recreation, and tourism professionals is incomplete if it does not prepare them for moral leadership in a participatory democracy. We anchor our thinking in Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture and build our case by revisiting Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, in which he admonished higher education for not preparing students, regardless of major, for assuming responsibility for their country’s m…
Thru-hikers’ smartphone use on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) runs from Mexico to Canada across the western United States. Attempting to complete the entire trail (i.e. thru-hiking) is increasingly popular. We surveyed 560 PCT thru-hikers and found that 97% carried smartphones. This study examined backcountry smartphone use along the PCT. We assessed thru-hikers’ daily smartphone use, different smartphone use behaviours, and days on the trail. Factor analysis categorized the sm…
Purveyors of One Health: The Ecological Imperative Driving the Future of Leisure Services
The coronavirus pandemic, for all of its damage to human health and well-being, has brought to light the wisdom underlying the idea of One Health, whose advocates reason that health is a reciprocal relationship between our species and the environment that sustains us. What is good for people should also be good for the environment, and what is good for the environment should also be good for people. Their preferred future is one in the same. As t…
Sticks and Stones: Embracing Discomfort to Enhance Learning
In The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Lukianoff and Haidt contend that an atmosphere of “safetyism” threatens the university’s ability to serve as an arena for free speech and academic freedom. In this paper, we examine their thinking through one professor’s uncomfortable experience with graduate students over the question of using gendered personal pronouns in scholarly w…
Learning, Fast and Slow
In Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) Kahneman describes two modes of thinking: System 1 and 2. System 1 operates quickly, automatically, and unconsciously, drawing on our vast reservoir of stored knowledge to decide what should or should not be done in any situation. System 2 is a slower, more deliberate process, requiring us to step back from our immediate circumstances to analyze them in more depth. Kahneman praises System 1 for its efficiency in …
Lessons from The Fuller Life Man
This paper discusses the teaching effectiveness of The Fuller Life Man, a short fictional account of a door-to-door salesman selling the necessary ingredients for living a good and purposeful life. The researchers pilot tested The Fuller Life Man in two college courses at the University of Utah, Leisure in Your Life, a general education course (n = 24), and Outdoor Recreation and Leadership, an honors college course (n = 21). Students from both c…
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure
The purpose of this research reflection is to revisit the foundations upon which we constitute our understanding of the good life. Specifically, we think it is important for our field to unmoor itself from the myth that the advent of agriculture led to increased leisure time. To make our case, we recount two strikingly different narratives of the settings in which leisure is proported to flourish that we believe help us make sense of the current …
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