Geographical Psychology: Exploring the Interaction of Environment and Behavior

✍ Scribed by Peter Rentfrow (editor)

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 357
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. These conditions affect how people from different regions behave and interact with their environments and each other.

Geographical Psychology makes the case that understanding of psychological phenomena can be greatly informed by a cross-disciplinary perspective that investigates the spatial organization and geographical representation of such phenomena.

The research described in this volume considers how ecological, climatic, and psychological factors contribute or are related to a variety of social indicators, providing a foundation for developing theory and research in this intriguing new field of study.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part I Mechanisms Underlying Geographical Variation in States, Traits, and Behaviors
Chapter 1 Where on Earth Do Collectivists Live? Climato–Economic Impacts on Ingroup Love and Outgroup Hate
Chapter 2 Regional Differences in Individualism and Why They Matter
Chapter 3 Pathogen Prevalence and Geographical Variation in Traits and Behavior
Chapter 4 Personality and the Realization of Migration Desires
Chapter 5 Personality Traits and Spatial Ecology in Nonhuman Animals
Part II Geographical Representation of Social Psychological Phenomena
Chapter 6 Geographical Differences in Personality
Chapter 7 Big Five Personality Differences and Political, Social, and Economic Conservatism: An American State-Level Analysis
Chapter 8 Investigating the Subjective Well-Being of United States Regions
Chapter 9 The City Where We Live Matters: The Psychology of Cities
Chapter 10 Finding Values in Words: Using Natural Language to Detect Regional Variations in Personal Concerns
Part III Person × Environment Interactions
Chapter 11 Residential Mobility Affects Self-Concept, Group Support, and Happiness of Individuals and Communities
Chapter 12 People, Culture, and Place: How Place Predicts Helping Toward Strangers
Chapter 13 The Psychogeography of Creativity
Chapter 14 Places, Products, and People “Make Each Other Up”: Culture Cycles of Self and Well-Being
Chapter 15 The Tyneside Neighborhoods Project: Investigating the Psychological Geography of One British City
Index
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