Keri Schwab
Biographic Data
| ID | 6187756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keri Schwab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keri |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwab |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWAB K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Polytechnic State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6351-6667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Environmental education and ethics among hikers on the Pacific Crest trail
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…
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 …
Navigating the waves of feminism(s)
Accepting reality as multi-faceted, duoethnography questions the dominant scientific paradigm, thereby allowing a sharing of unique, subjective, and evocative stories that contribute to the understanding of the social world. As such, telling our narrative, through a storytelling approach modelled by a duoethnographic methodology, we share our own positioning, visibility, and performance while engaging as solo women travellers. Informed by feminis…
The biochemistry behind human behavior
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
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…
Family Tourism
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
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…
People and Nature
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…
The biochemistry behind human behavior
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
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…
Navigating the waves of feminism(s)
Accepting reality as multi-faceted, duoethnography questions the dominant scientific paradigm, thereby allowing a sharing of unique, subjective, and evocative stories that contribute to the understanding of the social world. As such, telling our narrative, through a storytelling approach modelled by a duoethnographic methodology, we share our own positioning, visibility, and performance while engaging as solo women travellers. Informed by feminis…
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
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…
Family Tourism
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
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
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…
Navigating the waves of feminism(s)
Accepting reality as multi-faceted, duoethnography questions the dominant scientific paradigm, thereby allowing a sharing of unique, subjective, and evocative stories that contribute to the understanding of the social world. As such, telling our narrative, through a storytelling approach modelled by a duoethnographic methodology, we share our own positioning, visibility, and performance while engaging as solo women travellers. Informed by feminis…
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…
Environmental education and ethics among hikers on the Pacific Crest trail
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Recreation (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (3 works)