Publications

The Human Relationship with Nature

Lam, L.-W, Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Weiss, T. (2023). Children in Hong Kong interacting with relatively wild nature (vs. domestic nature) engage in less dominating and more relational behaviors. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2169254

Weiss, T., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Lam, L.-W. (2023). Children’s interactions with relatively wild nature associated with more relational behavior: A model of child-nature interaction in a forest preschool. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 86, 101941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101941

Li, H., Browning, H. E. M., Rigolon, A., Larson, L. R., Taff, D., Labib, S. M., Benfield, J., Yuan, S., McAnirlin, O. Hatami, N., Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2023). Beyond “bluespace” and “greenspace”: A narrative review of possible health benefits from exposure to other natural landscapes. Science of the Total Environment, 856(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159292

Nay, A., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Lawler, J. J., Bratman, G. N. (2022). Inequitable effects of COVID-19 on time spent in urban nature: A case study of Seattle, WA with Asian, Black, Latino, and White Residents. Land, 11, 1277. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081277

Howe, D., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Friedman, B. (1996). Along the Rio Negro: Brazilian children’s environmental views and values. Developmental Psychology, 32, 979-987.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Friedman, B. (1995). Environmental views and values of children in an inner-city Black community. Child Development, 66, 1403-1417.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Friedman, B. (1998). On nature and environmental education: Black parents speak from the inner city. Environmental Education Research, 4, 25-39.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2022). In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction. Journal of Moral Education, 51(1), 73-91. doi: 10.1080/03057240.2021.2016384

Lev, E., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Chen, H., & Esperum, G. (2020). Relatively wild urban parks can promote human resilience and flourishing: a case study of Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2020.00002

Bratman, G. N., Anderson, C. B., Berman, M. G., Cochran, B., de Vries, S., Flanders, J., Folke, C., Frumkin, H., Gross, J. J., Hartig, T., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Kuo, M., Lawler, J. J., Levin, P. S., Lindahl, T., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Mitchell, R., Ouyang, Z., Roe, J., Scarlett, L., Smith, J. R., van den Bosch, M., Wheeler, B. W., White, M. P., Zheng, H., Daily, G. C. (2019). Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective. Science Advances, 5, eaax0903

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Weiss, T., & Harrington, K. (2018). Modeling child-nature interaction in a nature preschool: A proof of concept. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:835. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00835

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Lev, E. M., Perrins, S. P., Weiss, T., Ehrlich, T., & Feinberg, D. S. (2018). Human-nature interaction patterns: Constituents of a Nature Language for environmental sustainability. Journal of Biourbanism, 1&2, 17, 41-57.

Frumkin, H., Bratman, G. N., Breslow, S. J., Cochran, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Lawler, J. J., Levin, P. S., Tandon, P. S., Varanasi, U., Wolf, K. L., Wood, S. A. (2017). Nature contact and human health: A research agenda. Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(7), 075001-1. doi:10.1289/EHP1663

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2009). Cohabitating with the wild. Ecopsychology, 1, 38-46.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. & Hasbach, P. H. (2013). The Rediscovery of the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. & Hasbach, P. H. (2012). Ecopsychology: Science, totems, and the technological species. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Kellert, S. R. (2002). (Eds.). Children and nature: Psychological, sociocultural, and evolutionary investigations. MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (1999). The human relationship with nature: Development and culture. Cambridge. MIT Press.

Hartig, T., & Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2016). Living in cities, naturally. Science, 352, 938-940. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf3759

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2002). Children’s affiliations with nature: Structure, development, and the problem of environmental generational amnesia. In P. H. Kahn, Jr. & S. R. Kellert (Eds.), Children and nature: Psychological, sociocultural, and evolutionary investigations (pp. 93-116). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ecological Presence, and the Development of the Presence Scale

Presence scale, forthcoming.

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2020). Ecological presence as a virtue. In H. Bai, D Chang, & C. Scott (Eds.), A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene (pp. 31-48). University of Regina Press.

The Psychology of Everyday Digital Devices

Forthcoming

Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Borning, A. (2020). Value sensitive design and information systems. In K. Miller & M. Taddeo (Eds.), The Ethics of Information Technologies (pp. 348-372). Routledge.

Friedman, B., & Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2008). Human values, ethics, and design. In J. A. Jacko & A. Sears (Eds.), The human-computer interaction handbook: Fundamentals, evolving technologies, and emerging applications (pp. 1241-1266). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Revised and updated chapter from the 2003 edition.)

Interaction Pattern Theory, Research and Design

Lam, L.-W, Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Weiss, T. (2023). Children in Hong Kong interacting with relatively wild nature (vs. domestic nature) engage in less dominating and more relational behaviors. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2169254

Weiss, T., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Lam, L.-W. (2023). Children’s interactions with relatively wild nature associated with more relational behavior: A model of child-nature interaction in a forest preschool. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 86, 101941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101941

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Ruckert, J. H., & Hasbach, P. H. (2012). A nature language. In P. H. Kahn, Jr. & P. H. Hasbach (Eds.), Ecopsychology: Science, totems, and the technological species (pp. 55-77). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Ruckert, J. H., Severson, R. L., Reichert, A. L., & Fowler, E. (2010). A nature language: An agenda to catalog, save, and recover patterns of human-nature interaction. Ecopsychology, 2, 59-66.

Technological Nature

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2020). Losing touch with nature: Can technological nature replace the real thing? Institute of Arts and Ideas News, 92. https://iai.tv/articles/losing-touch-with-nature-auid-1683

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2018). Technological nature and human wellbeing. In M. van den Bosh & W. Bird (Eds.), Oxford textbook of nature and public health (pp. 160-164). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Gary, H. E., & Shen, S. (2013). Children’s social relationships with current and near-future robots. Child Development Perspectives, 13, 32-37. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12011

Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2011). Technological nature: Adaptation and the future of human life. MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Severson, R. L., & Ruckert, J. H. (2009). The human relation with nature and technological nature. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 37-42.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Gill, B., Hagman, J., Severson, R. L., Freier, N. G., Feldman, E. N., Carrère, S., & Stolyar, A. (2008). A plasma display window? – The shifting baseline problem in a technologically-mediated natural world. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28, 192-199.

Friedman, B., Freier, N. G., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Lin, P., & Sodeman, R. (2008). Office window of the future? – Field-based analyses of a new use of a large display. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66, 452-465.

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Shen, S. (2017). NOC NOC, who’s there? A new ontological category (NOC) for social robots. In N. Budwig, E. Turiel, & P. D. Zelazo (Eds.), New Perspectives on Human Development (pp. 106-122). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Gill, B. T., Shen, S., Ruckert, J. H., & Gary, H. E. (2016). Human creativity can be facilitated through interacting with a social robot. Proceedings of the 11^th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 173-180). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (acceptance rate 25%).

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Gill, B. T., Shen, S., Gary, H. E., Ruckert, J. H. (2015). Will people keep the secret of a humanoid robot? – Psychological intimacy in HRI. Proceedings of the 10^th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 173-180). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2696454.2696486. (Acceptance rate 25%).

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Shen, S., Gary, H. E., & Ruckert, J. H. (2014). Creative collaboration with a social robot. Proceedings of UbiComp2014 (pp. 99-103). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2632048.2632058.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Freier, N. G., Severson, R. L., Gill, B. T., Ruckert, J. H., & Shen, S. (2012). “Robovie, You’ll Have to Go into the Closet Now”: Children’s social and moral relationships with a humanoid robot. Developmental Psychology, 48, 303-314. doi:10.1037/a0027033

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Reichert, A. L., Gary, H. E., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Shen, S., Ruckert, J. H., & Gill, B. (2011). The new ontological category hypothesis in human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 159-160). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Gill, B. T., Reichert, A. L., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Ruckert, J. H. (2010). Validating interaction patterns in HRI. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 183-184). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Melson, G. F., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Beck, A. M., Friedman, B., Roberts, T., Garrett, E., & Gill, B. T. (2009). Children’s behavior toward and understanding of robotic and living dogs. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, 92-102.

Stanton, C. M., Kahn, P. H., Jr., Severson, R. L., Ruckert, J. H. & Gill, B. T. (2008). Robotic animals might aid in the social development of children with autism. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2008 (pp. 97-104). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., Perez-Granados, D. R., & Freier, N. G. (2006). Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children. Interaction Studies: Social Behavior and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 7, 405-436.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Ishiguro, H., Friedman, B., & Kanda, T. (2006). What is a human? – Toward psychological benchmarks in the field of human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the 15^th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN ’06) (pp. 364-371). Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).