title: Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action.
abstract: A school became safer after security measures were removed. Children can learn better in playful, rather than didactic, settings. At-risk students earned higher grades after writing about a personal value. A novel construct - mise en place--explains how small changes in context, such as these, can lead to large changes in behaviors by highlighting how the psychology of preparing to act within an environment shapes and is shaped by that environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Solomon Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: deena.weisberg@psych.upenn.edu.
authors.forename: Deena Skolnick
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Weisberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Temple University, 1701 North 13th Street, Weiss Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirsh-Pasek
authors.affiliation: School of Education, University of Delaware, Willard Hall Education Building, Newark, DE 19716, USA.
authors.forename: Roberta Michnick
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Golinkoff
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, 230 Appleton Place, Peabody College #552, Nashville, TN 37203-5721, USA.
authors.forename: Bruce D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: McCandliss
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D011588:Psychology, Educational; D012574:Schools; D014481:United States