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Ecological priming: Convergent evidence for the link between ecology and psychological processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2013

Michele J. Gelfand  and
Janetta Lun
Michele J. Gelfand
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.eduhttp://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/gelfand/janettalun@gmail.com
Janetta Lun
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.eduhttp://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/gelfand/janettalun@gmail.com
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Abstract

This commentary describes the use of ecological priming methods to address the limitations of the correlational research discussed in the target article. We provide examples from our own work on cultural tightness–looseness to illustrate how we can bring ecological and societal conditions into the laboratory in order to study the impact of ecological threats on psychological processes experimentally.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 489 - 490
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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