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From life stages to micro-events: Ecological psychology and affordance management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2026

Mats Haraldsen Open the ORCID record for Mats Haraldsen [Opens in a new window]  and
Sarah Bro Trasmundi Open the ORCID record for Sarah Bro Trasmundi [Opens in a new window]
Mats Haraldsen*
Affiliation:
Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway mats.haraldsen@ilos.uio.no
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
Affiliation:
Department of Culture and Language, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark sarbro@sdu.dk
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Abstract

This commentary addresses the issue of creativity and the role of materiality in affordance management. We argue that research in ecological psychology and the method of cognitive event analysis can complement Ko and Neuberg’s life span perspective by showing how agents shape material environments to enable unpredictability and creativity when managing their affordance landscape.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 49 , 2026 , e67
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press

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