yeya Victor Corral-Verdugo:<br />
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We have reached a decision regarding your submission to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology, "Is it human mind attuned with general ecological principles?".<br />
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Our decision is to: Revisions requiered.<br />
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Colegas por favor dejemen saber si pueden hacer la revisiones necesarias y para cuando. Una vez haga las revisiones, provean una carta de presentacion en la me dicen los cambios que le hicieron al manuscrito y si no estan de acuerdo con lo sugerido por el/al evaluador/a cual es su racionalida para no hacer los cambios.<br />
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Dr. Edil Torres Rivera<br />
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala<br />
etorresrivera@gmail.com<br />
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Reviewer A:<br />
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The article titled “Is it human mind attuned with general ecological principles?” discusses a relevant topic in the field of environmental psychology as it aims to relate human attitudes with ecological principles. In this sense, it tests empirically some hypotheses from the literature review.<br />
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Regarding the abstract, I suggest a review of it, in order to include information about the method of study and the main results. A first reading of it, leads us to conclude that it is a literature review study and not an empirical study as indeed it is.<br />
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 About the method, participants need to be better described because there are no data on how many of them represent each area (areas representing the low, middle and high socio-economic strata of the city), as well as how they were accessed. For instruments, I suggest including information on the psychometric properties of them, as they serve as a parameter to evaluate the results found in this study.<br />
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The results show that the hypothesis (HEAP implies knowledge, appreciation for, and the practice of ecological rules) can be partially supported. The study limitations have been described adequately.<br />
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The statement “In the case of association, respondents evaluated slightly more positively the cooperation component of association (mean = 3.57) than the competition one (mean = 3.21), probably because they are part of a collectivistic society which privileges (at least in theory) the interest of community and teamwork”, can not be affirmed because there are insufficient data about participants.<br />
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The final paragraph, “Why HAEP exists?” does not appear as integrated into the logical structure of the article.<br />
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Although the literature cited is relevant, the article needs newer references (last five years) for the research theme.<br />
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The results show the importance of schooling in relation to affinity with ecological principles, as with other principles and attitudes investigated in the study. Thus, education by itself would be an important component in promoting pro-environmental attitudes. <br />
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Reviewer B:<br />
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The paper gives a new approach to understand the sustainable behavior including the emotional aspect, find a model with high percent of variance explained but in discussion the authors could explain the practice implications<br />
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The title is very ambitious because is very difficult explain the human mind utilizing only a little sample of one city actually the authors admit this like a limitation.<br />
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It mention the number of participants but is important describe the type of sampling. Begins with a question but not is clearly if the results answer the question<br />
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Review the way of ending the paper; I think the last paragraph is a general idea for a new research. <br />
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There are a little discrepancies between the citation in paper and the references, also is necessary including the DOI in references<br />
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor<br />
Interamerican Journal of Psychology<br />
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP