The following message is being delivered on behalf of Interamerican Journal of Psychology.
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Maria Gabriela Luna:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Is it human mind attuned with general ecological principles?," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2016-07-24 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation. The web site is http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP

The review itself is due 2016-08-14.

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Submission URL: http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/102

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"Is it human mind attuned with general ecological principles?"

Abstract
Some scholars claim that similarities exist between human communities and ecosystems; also, that people can learn how to live sustainably from knowing the way ecosystems work. Yet, at the psychological level, the relationship between practicing sustainable behaviors and living in accordance with ecological principles has been barely studied. This paper addresses such relationship, testing the idea that acting in accordance with ecological principles requires 1) a knowledge of ecological rules, 2) an affinity towards those rules, and 3) behaving accordingly (i.e., acting sustainably). We call this hypothetical construct the Human Attunement with Ecological Principles (HAEP), assuming that it implies the presence of a human predisposition to knowing, valuing and applying these principles. In developing the idea, the paper reviews relevant literature, aiming to find evidence that supports the HAEP hypothesis, and presents results of a study showing that HAEP significantly and saliently predicts engagement in sustainable behaviors.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP