title: Ecological priming: convergent evidence for the link between ecology and psychological processes.
abstract: This commentary describes the use of ecological priming methods to address the limitations of the correlational research discussed in the target article. We provide examples from our own work on cultural tightness-looseness to illustrate how we can bring ecological and societal conditions into the laboratory in order to study the impact of ecological threats on psychological processes experimentally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. mgelfand@umd.edu http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/gelfand/ janettalun@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Michele J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Gelfand
authors.forename: Janetta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lun
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D017753:Ecosystem; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors