Environment and Behavior: A Dynamic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Charles J. Holahan (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1978
Tongue: English
Leaves: 195
Series: The Plenum Social Ecology Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book has been written as a text for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in the burgeoning field of study that has come to be called environment and behavior. It is appropriate for courses in environmental psychology, social ecology, ecological psychology, and community psychology when the community is conceptualized from an ecological viewpoint. In addition, the book may be used in design courses oriented toward an appreciation of the interaction between architecture and human behavior. The book presents a thorough explication of a perspective or viewpoint in approaching the study of environment and behavior, which has tended to be underemphasized in past work in this area. The dynamic perspective focuses on the active role people play in dealing with environmental challenges. Its investigative interest is in the processes that mediate the effects of environment on behavior, especially the positive and adaptive ways in which people cope with the environment. The accent is on the creative, complex, yet subtle character of these environmental processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Emergence of a New Perspective....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-24
Street Life and High-Rise Public Housing....Pages 25-44
Social Coping and Environmental Satisfaction in a University Megadorm....Pages 45-56
Coping with Environmental Change: A Social Systems Model....Pages 57-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-79
Social Isolation and Seating Patterns in an Experimental Hospital Dayroom....Pages 81-96
Invasion of Privacy and Self-Disclosure in a Counseling Setting....Pages 97-111
The Unresponsive Urbanite: Personal versus Situational Determinants....Pages 113-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-130
Sex Differences in Schematizing the Behavioral Environment....Pages 131-139
Errors in Cognitive Mapping: A Behavioral Interpretation....Pages 141-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Implications for the Field of Environment and Behavior....Pages 159-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-188

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general

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