Peter H. Kahn, Jr. is a professor in the Department of Psychology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, and Director of the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Laboratory at the University of Washington. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Ecopsychology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His publications have appeared in such journals as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Journal of Systems Software, as well as in such proceedings as CHI, HRI, and Ubicomp. His 5 books (all with MIT Press) include Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life (2011).
Peter H. Kahn Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
University of Washington
Areas of Expertise
Publications
Kahn, P. H., Jr. (in press). In moral relationship with nature: Development and interaction. Journal of Moral Education. doi: 10.1080/03057240.2021.2016384
Kahn, P. H., Jr., Weiss, T., & Harrington, K. (2018). Modeling child-nature interaction in a nature preschool: A proof of concept. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:835. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00835
Kahn, P. H., Jr., Lev, E. M., Perrins, S. P., Weiss, T., Ehrlich, T., & Feinberg, D. S. (2018). Human-nature interaction patterns: Constituents of a Nature Language for environmental sustainability. Journal of Biourbanism, 1&2, 17, 41-57.
Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2011). Technological nature: Adaptation and the future of human life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.