This article contrasts top-down and bottom-up approaches to understand ecology-mind interactions, suggesting their complementary roles.
Ko and Neuberg's affordance-management framework represents an important top-down approach to understanding how distal environments shape human psychology through evolutionarily recurrent problems. We contrast this evolutionary approach with the bottom-up socio-ecological approach, which focuses on current environmental arrangements, highlighting their complementary research strategies for understanding ecology-mind interactions.
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