Rewilding psychology

Baggs, Edward; Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme

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Rewilding psychology

dc.contributor.author	Baggs, Edward
dc.contributor.author	Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-23T11:45:50Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-23T11:45:50Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2024 The Author(s)
dc.date.issued	2024-08-07
dc.description.abstract	Some commentators have recently argued that scientific psychology is overly reliant on artificial laboratory-based activities and undervalues field-based investigations. However, it remains unclear how a field-based programme of psychological research might be organized in a scalable way. We examine and compare two existing field-based approaches: Roger Barker’s behaviour settings programme and Edwin Hutchins’s distributed cognition programme. Both programmes prioritize observational work, and both reject the individual as the unit of analysis in favour of a community-scale unit. However, whereas the behaviour settings programme is concerned with structural properties of community life, distributed cognition is concerned more narrowly with the functional analysis of expert team performance. We discuss how these programmes can inform a future community-scale approach to studying psychology in the wild. We conclude that the two programs are proof of concept of the possibility of a scientific psychology that rejects methodological individualism. This article is part of the theme issue ‘People, places, things and communities: expanding behaviour settings theory in the 21st century’.
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dc.identifier.citation	Baggs E., and Sanches de Oliveira, G. (2024). Rewilding psychology. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 379: 20230287. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0287
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0287
dc.identifier.issn	0962-8436
dc.identifier.issn	1471-2970
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/210244
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	The Royal Society
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad
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dc.subject	Behaviour settings
dc.subject	Distributed cognition
dc.subject	Community psychology
dc.subject	WEIRD
dc.subject	Psychological methods
dc.subject	Methodological individualism
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.title	Rewilding psychology
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