C. Holahan

Environment and Behavior

A Dynamic Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• The Plenum Social Ecology Series
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4684-2432-4
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 311g
• ISBN-13: 9781468424324
• ISBN-10: 1468424327
• Artikelnr.: 39160121

Inhaltsangabe

1 Emergence of a New Perspective.- The Human Dimension in Architecture.- In Search of New Knowledge.- Assessing the Impact of the Built Environment.- A Working Definition of Environmental Psychology.- Placing Perspective in Perspective.- A Dynamic Perspective.- Agenda for This Book.- References.- I Environmental Coping.- 2 Street Life and High-Rise Public Housing.- 3 Social Coping and Environmental Satisfaction in a University Megadorm.- 4 Coping with Environmental Change: A Social Systems Model.- II Social Accommodation.- 5 Social Isolation and Seating Patterns in an Experimental Hospital Dayroom.- 6 Invasion of Privacy and Self-Disclosure in a Counseling Setting.- 7 The Unresponsive Urbanite: Personal versus Situational Determinants.- III Environmental Schematization.- 8 Sex Differences in Schematizing the Behavioral Environment.- 9 Errors in Cognitive Mapping: A Behavioral Interpretation.- IV Synthesis.- 10 Implications for the Field of Environment and Behavior.- Author Index.