Rethinking Adaptation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15445249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D J Davidson (0000-0003-1734-7767, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 378-402 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/nc.2018.130304 |
| OpenAlex | W2918976728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 91 |
Understanding that climate change poses considerable threats for social systems, to which we must adapt in order to survive, social responses to climate change should be viewed in the context of evolution, which entails the variation, selection, and retention of information. Digging deeper into evolutionary theory, however, emotions play a surprisingly prominent role in adaptation. This article offers an explicitly historical, nondirectional conceptualization of our potential evolutionary pathways in response to climate change. Emotions emerge from the intersection of culture and biology to guide the degree of variation of knowledge to which we have access, the selection of knowledge, and the retention of that knowledge in new (or old) practices. I delve into multiple fields of scholarship on emotions, describing several important considerations for understanding social responses to climate change: emotions are shared, play a central role in decision-making, and simultaneously derive from past evolutionary processes and define future evolutionary processes
Adaptation (eye · Biology · Climate change · Conceptualization · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Evolutionary psychology · Political science · Scholarship · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
Collective Emotions
Emotions and Social Relations
What is so special about embodied simulation?
Rethinking the Emotional Brain
Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures
A Social Identity Analysis of Climate Change and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
Towards a Theory of Collective Emotions
Empathy and Its Discontents
We Feel, Therefore We Learn
A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals
Power, approach, and inhibition.
Climate Change, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Integrating Emotion Into Identity Theory
Identity Theory
I feel for us
Not By Genes Alone
Boomerang Effects in Science Communication
Occupational Status and the Experience of Anger
Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)
Climate catastrophes and fear
Emotion Management
Overcoming Fear, Denial, Myopia, and Paralysis
Climate visuals
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Micro Social Orders
Predicting Emotions from Social Relations
Collective Emotions, Normativity, and Empathy
Social Transformations
Loneliness within a nomological net
Emotional Climate, Human Security, and Cultures of Peace
The Value Basis of Environmental Concern
Collective Hope
The Hope Process and Social Inclusion
The Collapse of Western Civilization
Struggling with human exemptionalism
Walkerton revisited
Evolutionary epistemology
Intergroup emotions
The Second Darwinian Revolution
Structure, agency and environment
Risk Communication, Public Engagement, and Climate Change
Collective Emotions in Conflict Situations
The Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations
Toward a theory of the universal content and structure of values
Emotion, reflexivity and social change in the era of extreme fossil fuels
Emotions, affects and the production of social life
Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Scientific Collaborations and Social Movements
A Theory of the Self for the Sociology of Morality
Social Exchange and Micro Social Order
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Peeking in the Black Box
The sociology of emotions
The social psychology of protest
Human Agency and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Culture
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Emotions and Social Movements
Mobilization Processes and the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement
The expressive body
Have human societies evolved? Evidence from history and pre-history
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |