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Gene Myers
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
Huxley College of the Environment
Western Washington University
516 High St., MS 9085
Bellingham, WA 98225
Phone: (360) 650-4775
Fax: (360) 650-7702
Email: gmyers@cc.wwu.edu
Gene.Myers@wwu.edu
Website: www.ac.wwu.edu/~gmyers/
Publications related to Conservation Psychology:
Myers, Jr. O. E. (in press). The significance of children and animals: Social development and our connections to other species. Second, revised edition. West Layfayette, IN: Purdue University Press(originally published in 1998 as Children and animals, Westview Press).
Myers, Jr. O. E., Saunders, C. & Birjulin, A. (2004). Emotional dimensions of watching zoo animals: An experience sampling study building on insights from psychology. Curator, 47(3), 299-321.
Myers, Jr. O. E. & Russell, A. (2004). Human identity in relation to wild Black bears: A natural-social ecology of subjective creatures. In S. Clayton & S. Opotow (Eds.), Identity and the Natural Environment (pp. 67-90). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Myers, Jr. O. E., Saunders, C. D. & Garrett, E. (2004). What do children think animals need? Developmental trends. Environmental Education Research, 10(4), 545-562.
Myers, Jr. O. E., Saunders, C. D. & Garrett, E. (2003). What do children think animals need? Aesthetic and psycho-social conceptions. Environmental Education Research, 9(3), 305-325.
Bott, S., Cantrill, J. G. & Myers, Jr. O. E. (2003). Place and the promise of Conservation Psychology. Human Ecology Review, 10(2), 100-112.
Myers, Jr. O. E. (2003). "No longer the lonely species: A post-Mead perspective on animals and the self." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 23(3), 46-68.(Invited refereed article for special issue on "Animals and the future of sociology.")
Myers, Jr. O. E. (2002). Symbolic animals and the developing self. Anthrozoös: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People and Animals, 15(1), 19-36.
Myers, Jr. O. E. & Saunders, C. (2002). Animals as links to developing caring relationships with the natural world. In P. H. Kahn Jr. & S. R. Kellert (Eds.), Children and nature: Theoretical and Scientific Foundations (pp. 153-178). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Research Interests:
Human developmental study of environmental morality
