Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species

Subject Index

Subject Index Architecture. See Nature-oriented architecture Arhuacos people, 295–297 Arts, 40 Astrology, 235 Attention, 17, 265–270 and beauty, 279–280 and intention, 281 and Internet use, 272 and natural history, 275 and nature scenes, 272–274, 281 and sensation, 273–274 shifting focus of, 276–279, 281–282 Attention-restoration theory (ART), 201–202, 272–273 Australia, 17–18, 241–242 Aboriginal peoples, 18, 298–304 European settlement in, 246–247, 300 Hunter Valley, 244–247 Perth region, 248–249 water consumption, 249 Australopithecines, 27 Avatar, 261 Awe, 198–199, 208 Ayer’s Rock, 59 Beauty, 17, 279–282 Behavioral psychology, 233 Belief, 288 Biophilia, 196–197, 253–254 Aboriginal cultures, 11–12. See also Indigenous cultures Aborigines, 18, 298–304 Aché hunters, 28–29 Adaptations, evolutionary, 27, 34, 39, 204–205, 207 Adult mentorship, 37–38 Advanced robot dog (AIBO), 10 Aesthetic preferences, 150, 279–280 Aggression, 124 Agriculture, 104, 316–317 Agroforestry, 107 Air pollution, 186, 319 Aka-Bo language, 74 Alienation, 99 Altars of Extinction, 106 Aluna, 295 Andaman Islands, 74 Andes, 18, 289–295 Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), 202–203 Animal bonding, 26, 37 Animals and architecture, 202–205 attitudes toward, 85 benefits of contact with, 142–145 and children, 82, 121 interaction with, 55, 60, 121, 203 and stress management, 143–144 and therapy, 143 Anthropocentrism, 102, 224, 276 Anthropology, 106–108 Anxiety, 270, 275 336 Subject Index Biophilia hypothesis, 24–25, 30, 38 empirical support for, 122–124, 196 and evolutionary adaptation, 39, 204 problems with, 33–34, 197 Biophilic architecture, 196–197, 212–213. See also Natureoriented architecture Biophobia, 34, 246, 254 Biosphere, 221, 223. See also Gaia theory Biosphere, The, 227 Birds, 149 Bird watching, 122 Bonding, 26 animal, 26, 37 childhood, 37–39 and hominins, 33 and hormones, 37 human-nature bonds, 24–25, 27–28, 32–34 mother-infant bonds, 26–27, 32, 36 pair, 26, 32 Brain, human, 27, 31–33 and attention, 281 and beauty, 280 cognitive habits, 270–271 development of, 268–269 and Internet use, 271–272 neuroplasticity, 268–270 and periodicity, 59 and sight, 265–267 and technology, 271 Britain, 247 British colonialism, 300 Brook Ecovillage, 174, 177, 179–180 Buddhism, 5, 81, 97, 267 “Business as usual,” 270 Campfires, 61 Capitalism, 100–102, 104 Case Battló, 205 Case-control studies, 158 Case reports, 158 Case series, 158 Cats, 142–143 Chaco Canyon, 319–320 Chiefdoms, 317 Childhood and animals, 82, 121 and biome preference, 123 bonding, 37–39 and brain conditioning, 268–269 cultural influence upon, 221, 269 duration of, 27 and natural world, 90, 94–95, 259 and wilderness experience, 259 Child sacrifice, 292, 312, 314 China, 186 Chinchero, 290–291 Circadian clock, 59 Cities, 62 Clan totem, 11 Climbing, 59–60 Clinical epidemiology, 141, 154–161 defined, 157 evidence-based medicine, 156–157 and health interventions, 158 limitations of, 159–161 and nature contact, 158–160 randomized clinical trials, 155–157 types of studies, 157–158 Cloud formation, 231 Coal mining, 244–245, 247 Coca, 289–290 Coevolution, 30–31 Cognitive development, 94 Cognitive habits, 270–271 Cohort studies, 157–158 Coltan mining, 184 Columbia, 295 Communication technology, 15. See also Technology Community gardens, 146 Comparative effectiveness research, 158 Concept of Dread, The, 257 Congo, Democratic Republic of the, 184 Conquistadors, 289 Conservation biology, 56 Conservation psychology, 7, 79, 108 Consumption, 102 Subject Index 337 Cooking outside, 61 Coppice agroforestry, 107 Coricancha, 292 Cosmologies, 42–44 Cosmologists, 12 Council of All Beings, 173–174 Countercultural ecopsychology, 13–14 Countercultural movement, 3, 7 Creative information praxis, 190 Critical psychology, 103–106 Crocodiles, 301 Cross-sectional studies, 158 Cultural evolution, 30–32 Culture, 28 Cusco, 292 Damaged Life, 104 Daylight, 59 Deideologization, 106 Delinguistification, 105–106 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 184 Depression, 99 Depth perception, 271 Depth psychology, 91 Design patterns, 56–57 Desolation, 256 Desymbolization, 105 Dialectics, 98–99 Digital revolution, 2 Dogs, 60, 142–143 Domestic interaction patterns, 60–62 Double-blinding, 155 Dreams, 117 Dreamtime, 299, 303–304 Druze people, 314 Dualism, 86–87 Earth atmosphere, 230, 233 and Gaian system, 5, 228–229 and geocosmic cycles, 234–235 relationship with, 4 stability of, 228, 230 temperature regulation, 228, 230–231, 233 Earth systems science (ESS), 231 Easter Island, 311 Ecoanxiety, 249, 257–258, 275 Ecoaversion, 254 Ecobiography, 241–242, 260 Ecoexistentialism, 257 Ecological anthropology, 106–108 Ecological complexity, 40 Ecological dominance, 28–30...