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AREAS OF STUDY AND INFLUENCE
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1. Perception of the environment
- Environmental sensitivity and awareness
- Environmental assessment and preferences
- Cognitive Maps, Wayfinding
- Sense of Place
- Images & metaphors of human-nature
relationships
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2. Effects of the Environment on Behavior
- The effects of environmental stimuli such as
noise, temperature, and weather ON emotions,
cognitive processes, performance, and social
interactions
- The effects of the social environment,
crowding, personal space
- Psychological effects of environmental
disasters
- Psychological effects of pollution and
environmental toxins
- Psychological effects of low-level
background environmental destruction and habitat
loss
- Environmental design issues, architectural
psychology
- Psychology of home and psychological
antecendents and effects of homelessness
- Ways in which nature promotes positive
mental health
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3. Effects of Behavior on the Environment
- Psychological sources of environmental
problems
...including environmental degradation,
environmental crises, homelessness,
overconsumption, and overpopulation
- Modifying attitudes and behavior to promote
environmentally responsible and sustainable
behavior
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4. Approaches in Environmental Psychology
- Behavioral approaches (Radical Behaviorism
or S-R Psychology)
- Cognitive approaches
- Ecological Psychology (Barker's approach)
- Phenomenological approach
- Ecopsychology
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5. Recommended Reading
- Paul Bell, Thomas Greene, Jeffrey Fisher,
& Andrew Baum. (1996). ENVIRONMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGY. Ft Worth: Harcourt Brace. A
detailed discussion of theory and research
findings in environmetnal psychology.
- Deborah Winter. (1996). ECOLOGICAL
PSYCHOLOGY. NY: HarperCollins. A discussion
of what the various areas of psychology have to
contribute to "healing the split between planet
and self" and dealing with environmental
problems.
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