Peter H Kahn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 110380 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter H Kahn |
| PRENOMES | Peter H |
| SOBRENOME | Kahn |
| ASSINATURA | KAHN P H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2879-7210 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Reflections on
The Presence Scale
The importance of (not just visual) interaction with nature
This study investigated whether children’s nature interactions that are embodied (versus only visual) would be associated with a state of being highly aware without thought, including being in “the present moment,” and/or feeling connected to something beyond the self. We refer to this state of being as Presence in nature. Using an interaction pattern approach, we coded written narratives from 127 Girl Scouts (8-11 years old) about a recent meani…
Children in Hong Kong interacting with relatively wild nature (vs. domestic nature) engage in less dominating and more relational behaviors
Might interacting with relatively wild forms of nature help move our world away from its largely domination-oriented and destructive sensibilities? Toward broaching this question, this study used an Interaction Pattern Approach to model child-nature interaction in a Hong Kong nature program. Observational video data were collected of 54 children (mean age 4.8 years) while they were playing in relatively wild or domestic landscapes. In total, 708 …
Two poems
In moral relationship with nature
One of the overarching problems of the world today is that too many people see themselves as dominating other groups of people, and dominating nature. That is a root problem. And thus part of a core solution builds from Kohlberg’s commitment to a universal moral orientation, though extended to include not only all people but the more-than-human world: animals, trees, plants, species, ecosystems, and the land itself. In this article, I make a case…
Nature and mental health
We provide consensus on the benefits of nature experience for mental health, and a model for integrating them into urban design.
Nature Contact and Human Health
Background: At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the potential health benefits of nature contact has grown. Research in recent decades has yielded substantial evidence, but large gaps remain in our understanding. Objectives: We propose a research agenda on nature contact and health, identifying principal domains of research and key questions that, if answered, would provide the basis for evidence-based publ…
Living in cities, naturally
Natural features, settings, and processes in urban areas can help to reduce stress associated with urban life. In this and other ways, public health benefits from, street trees, green roofs, community gardens, parks and open spaces, and extensive connective pathways for walking and biking. Such urban design provisions can also yield ecological benefits, not only directly but also through the role they play in shaping attitudes toward the environm…
Continuing the Conversation on Visioning Ecopsychology
Social and Moral Relationships with Robots
Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems
The Next Phase for Ecopsychology
Revisioning Ecopsychology
Ecopsychology Roundtable
Ecopsychology journal Editor Thomas Doherty spoke with Patricia Hasbach (right) and Peter Kahn (far right), coeditors of the upcoming Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species, an edited volume from MIT Press. Patricia is an educator and psychotherapist in private practice in Eugene, Oregon. Peter is an associate professor at the University of Washington who has written extensively on the topic of nature, technology, and human…
Wild-Technology
Becoming and Being
Raciocínio ecológico-moral
Os problemas do ambiente não podem mais ser ignorados. Neste artigo, são apresentados alguns resultados de uma investigação realizada numa amostra de sujeitos de Lisboa (Kahn & Lourenço, 2000). Nessa pesquisa, foram explorados alguns aspectos da nossa compreensão da ontogénese da relação humana com a natureza. Cento e vinte participantes igualmente divididos por quatro níveis de escolaridade (5.o ano, 8.o ano, 11.o ano e 1.o ano da Universidade) …
Robovie, you'll have to go into the closet now
Children will increasingly come of age with personified robots and potentially form social and even moral relationships with them. What will such relationships look like? To address this question, 90 children (9-, 12-, and 15-year-olds) initially interacted with a humanoid robot, Robovie, in 15-min sessions. Each session ended when an experimenter interrupted Robovie's turn at a game and, against Robovie's stated objections, put Robovie into a cl…
Contents, Vol. 34, 1991
Commentary
Bounding the Controversies
By drawing on four foundational issues in the study of moral development – moral definition, ontogeny, variation, and epistemology – this article offers a means for bounding moral development controversies, in the sense of defining their parameters and clarifying the conflicts. Numerous controversies are examined, to provide a sense of the robustness of the analyses. These controversies include debates between character-education and social-cogni…
A Nature Language
We as a species are losing rich and diverse forms of interaction with nature: the awe, for example, of encountering an animal in the wild or a slug underfoot, of sleeping under the night sky, or of even seeing the night sky in our urban settings. The loss is happening quickly (in terms of decades) and potentially impoverishing us as a species, physically and psychologically. Toward addressing this problem, we propose a new research agenda that is…
The Human Relation With Nature and Technological Nature
Two world trends are powerfully reshaping human existence: the degradation, if not destruction, of large parts of the natural world, and unprecedented technological development. At the nexus of these two trends lies technological nature—technologies that in various ways mediate, augment, or simulate the natural world. Current examples of technological nature include videos and live webcams of nature, robot animals, and immersive virtual environme…
Cohabitating With the Wild
There is long-standing recognition that while an environmental-human discipline must do much else as well, it must ground its speculation ever anew in seeing. There is also recognition that there is as much merit to narrative as to argument. It is in this sense that this article seeks to see and to narrate, while its author is living on 670 acres of mountain land, an hour up a dirt road from the nearest town, off-line and off grid. The article fo…
Robovie, you'll have to go into the closet now
Children will increasingly come of age with personified robots and potentially form social and even moral relationships with them. What will such relationships look like? To address this question, 90 children (9-, 12-, and 15-year-olds) initially interacted with a humanoid robot, Robovie, in 15-min sessions. Each session ended when an experimenter interrupted Robovie's turn at a game and, against Robovie's stated objections, put Robovie into a cl…
Along the Rio Negro
Children in urban and rural parts of the Brazilian Amazon were interviewed in Portuguese on how they understand and value their relationship with the natural environment. Forty-four 5th-grade children (mean age = 13 years, 8 months) participated. Children in both locations were aware of environmental problems, believed that throwing garbage in the Rio Negro harmed various parts of the environment (i.e., birds, insects, the view of the river, and …
Children's moral and ecological reasoning about the Prince William Sound oil spill
Robotic Pets in Human Lives
Robotic “pets” are being marketed as social companions and are used in the emerging field of robot‐assisted activities, including robot‐assisted therapy (RAA). However, the limits to and potential of robotic analogues of living animals as social and therapeutic partners remain unclear. Do children and adults view robotic pets as “animal‐like,”“machine‐like,” or some combination of both? How do social behaviors differ toward a robotic versus livin…
Moral and Fearful Affiliations with the Animal World
The purpose of this study was to extend knowledge on how children understand their affiliation with an animal that can evoke both fear and care: bats. We interviewed 120 children, evenly divided between four age groups (6–7, 9–10, 12–13, and 15–16 years) after each child had visited an exhibit at Brookfield Zoo that displays Rodrigues fruit bats. Results showed that in the same children a fear orientation toward bats existed alongside of a caring…
Public participation and value advocacy in information design and sharing
Supporting public participation is often a key goal in the design of digital government systems. However, years of work may be required before a complex system, such as the UrbanSim urban simulation system, is deployed and ready for such participation. In this paper, we investigate laying the foundations for public participation in information design and sharing in advance of wide-scale public deployment, with the goal of having interaction desig…
Order
Along the Rio Negro
Children in urban and rural parts of the Brazilian Amazon were interviewed in Portuguese on how they understand and value their relationship with the natural environment. Forty-four 5th-grade children (mean age = 13 years, 8 months) participated. Children in both locations were aware of environmental problems, believed that throwing garbage in the Rio Negro harmed various parts of the environment (i.e., birds, insects, the view of the river, and …
Developmental Psychology and the Biophilia Hypothesis
Bayous and jungle rivers
Similarities in moral concerns and obligations to the environment were found in the moral reasoning of African American children in Houston and Brazilian children in a large city and in a small river village
Children's moral and ecological reasoning about the Prince William Sound oil spill
On Nature and Environmental Education
Twenty four black parents from Houston, Texas were interviewed on their perspectives about nature and environmental education. Residts showed that animals, plants and parks played an important part in the lives of these parents and their families. Parents were also aware of the negative effects of environmental problems, such as air pollution, water pollution and garbage. Parents talked about such problems with their children, acted to help the e…
Reinstating Modernity in Social Science Research – or – The Status of Bullwinkle in a Post-Postmodern Era
In recent years, postmodern critiques have enlarged in scope, and increasingly confronted traditional social scientists with challenges: epistemic, methodological, and moral. In this article, we offer a two-pronged response. First, we speak to problems within postmodern theory itself. We argue that, when taken seriously, the theory leads to contradictions in epistemology, to fragmentation in knowledge, to opportunism in interpersonal relationship…
The Human Relationship with Nature
Kahn's empirical and theoretical findings draw on current work in psychology, biology, environmental behavior, education, policy, and moral development. Urgent environmental problems call for vigorous research and theory on how humans develop a relationship with nature. In a series of original research projects, Peter Kahn answers this call. For the past eight years, Kahn has studied children, young adults, and parents in diverse geographical loc…
Children and Nature
For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on child…
Ape Cognition and Why It Matters for the Field of Psychology
The Watcher and the Watched
Digitally capturing and displaying real-time images of people in public places raises concerns for individual privacy. Applying principles of Value Sensitive
Moral and Fearful Affiliations with the Animal World
The purpose of this study was to extend knowledge on how children understand their affiliation with an animal that can evoke both fear and care: bats. We interviewed 120 children, evenly divided between four age groups (6–7, 9–10, 12–13, and 15–16 years) after each child had visited an exhibit at Brookfield Zoo that displays Rodrigues fruit bats. Results showed that in the same children a fear orientation toward bats existed alongside of a caring…
The Human Relation With Nature and Technological Nature
Two world trends are powerfully reshaping human existence: the degradation, if not destruction, of large parts of the natural world, and unprecedented technological development. At the nexus of these two trends lies technological nature—technologies that in various ways mediate, augment, or simulate the natural world. Current examples of technological nature include videos and live webcams of nature, robot animals, and immersive virtual environme…
Cohabitating With the Wild
There is long-standing recognition that while an environmental-human discipline must do much else as well, it must ground its speculation ever anew in seeing. There is also recognition that there is as much merit to narrative as to argument. It is in this sense that this article seeks to see and to narrate, while its author is living on 670 acres of mountain land, an hour up a dirt road from the nearest town, off-line and off grid. The article fo…
Robotic Pets in Human Lives
Robotic “pets” are being marketed as social companions and are used in the emerging field of robot‐assisted activities, including robot‐assisted therapy (RAA). However, the limits to and potential of robotic analogues of living animals as social and therapeutic partners remain unclear. Do children and adults view robotic pets as “animal‐like,”“machine‐like,” or some combination of both? How do social behaviors differ toward a robotic versus livin…
Public participation and value advocacy in information design and sharing
Supporting public participation is often a key goal in the design of digital government systems. However, years of work may be required before a complex system, such as the UrbanSim urban simulation system, is deployed and ready for such participation. In this paper, we investigate laying the foundations for public participation in information design and sharing in advance of wide-scale public deployment, with the goal of having interaction desig…
Contents, Vol. 34, 1991
Commentary
Bounding the Controversies
By drawing on four foundational issues in the study of moral development – moral definition, ontogeny, variation, and epistemology – this article offers a means for bounding moral development controversies, in the sense of defining their parameters and clarifying the conflicts. Numerous controversies are examined, to provide a sense of the robustness of the analyses. These controversies include debates between character-education and social-cogni…
A Nature Language
We as a species are losing rich and diverse forms of interaction with nature: the awe, for example, of encountering an animal in the wild or a slug underfoot, of sleeping under the night sky, or of even seeing the night sky in our urban settings. The loss is happening quickly (in terms of decades) and potentially impoverishing us as a species, physically and psychologically. Toward addressing this problem, we propose a new research agenda that is…
Ecopsychology Roundtable
Ecopsychology journal Editor Thomas Doherty spoke with Patricia Hasbach (right) and Peter Kahn (far right), coeditors of the upcoming Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species, an edited volume from MIT Press. Patricia is an educator and psychotherapist in private practice in Eugene, Oregon. Peter is an associate professor at the University of Washington who has written extensively on the topic of nature, technology, and human…
Wild-Technology
Becoming and Being
Raciocínio ecológico-moral
Os problemas do ambiente não podem mais ser ignorados. Neste artigo, são apresentados alguns resultados de uma investigação realizada numa amostra de sujeitos de Lisboa (Kahn & Lourenço, 2000). Nessa pesquisa, foram explorados alguns aspectos da nossa compreensão da ontogénese da relação humana com a natureza. Cento e vinte participantes igualmente divididos por quatro níveis de escolaridade (5.o ano, 8.o ano, 11.o ano e 1.o ano da Universidade) …
Robovie, you'll have to go into the closet now
Children will increasingly come of age with personified robots and potentially form social and even moral relationships with them. What will such relationships look like? To address this question, 90 children (9-, 12-, and 15-year-olds) initially interacted with a humanoid robot, Robovie, in 15-min sessions. Each session ended when an experimenter interrupted Robovie's turn at a game and, against Robovie's stated objections, put Robovie into a cl…
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