Perspectives on Environment and Behavior

Theory, Research, and Applications
Herausgegeben:Stokols, Daniel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4684-2279-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781468422795
• ISBN-10: 1468422790
• Artikelnr.: 40771816

Inhaltsangabe

Section I. Introduction.- 1. Origins and Directions of Environment-Behavioral Research.- Section II. Ecological Psychology.- 2. Behavioral Ecology.- 3. From Church to Laboratory to National Park: A Program of Research on Excess and Insufficient Populations in Behavior Settings.- Section III. Environmental Psychology.- 4. Environmental Psychology: Origins and Development.- 5. Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Uncontrollable Environmental Events.- 6. Beyond the Effects of Crowding: Situational and Individual Differences.- 7. Simulation Techniques in Environmental Psychology.- Section IV. Applications of Behavioral Research to Environmental Design.- 8. Action Research.- 9. From Congruence to Antecedent Conditions: A Search for the Basis of Environmental Improvement.- 10. Participation in the Design Process: A Cognitive Approach.- 11. Preference and Everyday Nature: Method and Application.- 12. Who Needs What When: Design of Pluralistic Learning Environments.- 13. The Relevance of Crowding Experiments to Urban Studies.- Section V. Directions of Research on Environment and Behavior.- 14. Some Problems of Strategy in Environmental Psychology.- 15. Research on Environment and Behavior: A Personal Statement of Strategy.- 16. Methodological Developments in Environment-Behavioral Research.- Author Index.