Macrocognition through the Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM) Lens: Identification of a Blind Spot of Macrocognition Research

On the depressive nature of the “burnout syndrome”: A clarification

“…We plead for a multiscale approach to occupational health, in which individual/dispositional and organizational/environmental factors are taken into account relationally [11]. Doing so, we warn investigators against the risk of ideologically favoring one level of explanation (e.g., individual) over another (e.g., organizational), by acting as if the answers to job stress research questions lay either exclusively in internal, individual-related factors or exclusively in external, organization-related factors.…”

Editorial: Depression, Burnout, and Other Mood Disorders: Interdisciplinary Approaches

“…Research problems in (behavioral) sciences usually involve multiscale structures (Laurent, 2014 ). The inability to carry out multi-layered investigations often leads to a neglect of either microscale- or macroscale-level determinants of behavior (Laurent and Bianchi, 2016 ). Unfortunately, this state of affairs can contribute to the development of parallel and poorly-interacting theoretical scaffoldings.…”