Perspectives on Environment and Behavior: Theory, Research, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Daniel Stokols (auth.), Daniel Stokols (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The inception of this volume can be traced to a series of Environmental Psychology Colloquia presented at the University of California, Irvine, dur­ ing the spring of 1974. These colloquia were held in conjunction with Social Ecology 252, a graduate seminar on Man and the Environment. Although the eight colloquia covered a wide range of topics and exemplified a diversity of research techniques, they seemed to converge on some common theoretical and methodological assumptions about the na­ ture of environment-behavioral research. The apparent continuities among these colloquia suggested the utility of developing a manuscript that would provide a historical overview of research on environment and be­ havior, a representation of its major concerns, and an analysis of its concep­ tual and empirical trends. Thus, expanded versions of the initial presen­ tations were integrated with a supplemental set of invited manuscripts to yield the present volume of original contributions by leading researchers in the areas of ecological and environmental psychology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Origins and Directions of Environment-Behavioral Research....Pages 5-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-38
Behavioral Ecology....Pages 39-68
From Church to Laboratory to National Park: A Program of Research on Excess and Insufficient Populations in Behavior Settings....Pages 69-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-99
Environmental Psychology: Origins and Development....Pages 101-129
Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Uncontrollable Environmental Events....Pages 131-151
Beyond the Effects of Crowding: Situational and Individual Differences....Pages 153-168
Simulation Techniques in Environmental Psychology....Pages 169-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-193
Action Research....Pages 195-203
From Congruence to Antecedent Conditions: A Search for the Basis of Environmental Improvement....Pages 205-219
Participation in the Design Process: A Cognitive Approach....Pages 221-233
Preference and Everyday Nature: Method and Application....Pages 235-250
Who Needs What When: Design of Pluralistic Learning Environments....Pages 251-272
The Relevance of Crowding Experiments to Urban Studies....Pages 273-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-288
Some Problems of Strategy in Environmental Psychology....Pages 289-301
Research on Environment and Behavior: A Personal Statement of Strategy....Pages 303-323
Methodological Developments in Environment-Behavioral Research....Pages 325-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-360

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general