Plant Blindness in Children’s Art with Drs. Christina Hargiss and Paula Comeau, pt. 2

<p>“Analysis of Children's Drawings to Gain Insight into Plant Blindness” with Dr. Christina Hargiss and Dr. Paula Comeau</p> <p>Plant blindness is a phenomenon that, despite its name, has nothing to do with whether or not plants can see. It is actually defined as our inability to see or value the plants around us. Interdisciplinary researchers Drs. Christina Hargiss and Paula Comeau have spent a lot of time digging down to the “roots” of this problem, with research touching anything from psychology to history, cryptography, literature, art and more. This episode, we discuss their work studying plant blindness and mental models in children’s art.</p> <p>Listen to this two part episode to learn more about:</p> <ul> <li>What plant blindness is</li> <li>How child psychology and plant blindness research overlap</li> <li>What hurdles researchers face when working with younger study groups</li> <li>How you can fight plant blindness using your grocery store</li> <li>What witch trials, Harry Potter, confederate armies, and cryptography have to do with plant blindness</li> <li>What the next steps are in plant blindness research</li> </ul> <p>If you would like more information about this topic, this episode’s paper is available here: <a href= "https://doi.org/10.4195/nse2019.05.0009">https://doi.org/10.4195/nse2019.05.0009</a> </p> <p>It will be freely available from 4 March to 18 March, 2020.</p> <p>If you would like to find transcripts for this episode or sign up for our newsletter, please visit our website: <a href= "http://fieldlabearth.libsyn.com/">http://fieldlabearth.libsyn.com/</a></p> <p>Contact us at <a href= "mailto:podcast@sciencesocieties.org">podcast@sciencesocieties.org</a> or on Twitter @FieldLabEarth if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for show topics, and if you want more content like this don’t forget to subscribe.</p> <p>If you would like to reach out to Christina, you can find her here:<br /> <a href= "mailto:christina.hargiss@ndsu.edu">christina.hargiss@ndsu.edu</a></p> <p>If you would lik