Roope Oskari Kaaronen
AffiliationsUniversity of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science
Personal homepage ORCID more infohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2414-6974
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I am a multidisciplinary researcher (PhD Candidate) at the University of Helsinki. My research interests include sustainable behaviour change, ecological psychology, cognitive science and cultural evolution. I have a soft spot for complex systems and philosophy of science.
GitHub: https://github.com/roopekaaronen/
Research Interests
Ecological Psychology
Environmental Policy
Philosophy of Science
Cognitive Science
Ecological Rationality
Science & Society
Complex Systems
Agent-Based Modeling
Cultural Evolution of Sustainable Behaviours: Landscape of Affordances Model
Roope Oskari Kaaronen Nikita Strelkovskii | Published Wednesday, December 04, 2019 | Last modified Wednesday, December 04, 2019This NetLogo model illustrates the cultural evolution of pro-environmental behaviour patterns. It illustrates how collective behaviour patterns evolve from interactions between agents and agents (in a social network) as well as agents and the affordances (action opportunities provided by the environment) within a niche. More specifically, the cultural evolution of behaviour patterns is understood in this model as a product of:
- The landscape of affordances provided by the material environment,
- Individual learning and habituation,
- Social learning and network structure,
- Personal states (such as habits and attitudes), and
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Under development.