Tricia Striano Skoler

Open AccessArticle by 1,*, 1, 2 and 3,* 1 Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, 09126 Cagliari, Italy 2 Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 3 Department of Psychology, Hunter College, New York, NY 10065, USA * Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

By Tricia Skoler & Maithri Sivaraman We see and hear that children are on TikTok too much. How can we get our children excited about more positive play? How can we get children engaged and outside into nature and why should we even try? Nature is powerful. Source: Viltolda Klein/Unsplash As recently reported in Forbes1 doctors in Canada may now prescribe nature to patients who could benefit from more time outside in parks.

By Maithri Sivaraman and Tricia Skoler Imagine you are on your daily commute that involves a few miles on the freeway. You see signs of traffic on the entry to the freeway, and you take a different route that still gets you to work on time. This change of behavior in response to a changing environmental situation is what psychologists call cognitive flexibility. We humans employ such adaptability and flexibility on a daily basis multiple times across situations.