Abstract
Psychology has been “zooming in” on individuals, dyads, and groups with a narrow lens to the exclusion of “zooming out,” which involves placing the targeted phenomena within more distal layers of influential context. Here, we plea for a paradigm shift. Specifically, we showcase largely hidden scientific benefits of zooming out by discussing worldwide evidence on inhabitants’ habitual adaptations to colder-than-temperate and hotter-than-temperate habitats. These exhibits reveal two different types of theories. Clement-climate perspectives emphasize that generic common properties of stresses from cold and hot temperatures elicit similar effects on personality traits and psychosocial functioning. Cold-versus-heat perspectives emphasize that specific unique properties of stresses from cold and hot habitats elicit different effects on phenomena, such as speech practices and intergroup discrimination. Both zooming-out perspectives are then integrated into a complementary framework that helps identify explanatory mechanisms and demonstrates the broader added value of embedding zooming-in approaches within zooming-out approaches. Indeed, zooming out enriches psychology.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1198-1216 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 12 Jan 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2023.
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Keywords
- cold and hot habitats
- habits
- intergroup discrimination
- personality traits
- psychosocial functioning
- speech sonority
- zooming in
- zooming out
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