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Nov 1, 2018 · Informational Strategies to Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Changing Knowledge, Awareness, and Attitudes (Pages: 261-272)
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Informational Strategies to Promote Pro-Environmental...
- Encouraging Pro‐Environmental Behaviour With Rewards and Penalties
The three-term contingency suggests two behaviour-based...
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Topics include: * Healthy design * Restorative environments * Links to urban planning * Contaminated environments * Womens issues * Environments for aging * Climate, weather, and crime * The history and future of disaster research * Childrens environments * Personal space in a digital age * Community planning.
- The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions, by Winifred Gallagher. The Power of Place is a fast 256-page read for prospective environmental psychologists.
- Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave, by Adam Alter. Next on our list of books for environmental psychologists, Drunk Tank Pink is the at times unsettling account of how exterior influences have vast subconscious reach on a daily basis.
- This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live, by Melody Warnick. Part personal memoir, part science experiment and part how-to guide to making peace with a new hometown, Warnick’s This Is Where Your Belong is written in the tone of a wise friend.
- Environmental Psychology for Design, by Dak Kopec. This textbook targets students of urban design and architecture with insightful and practical ways that they can apply the field of environmental psychology to their future career.
- 1.1 INTRODUCTION
- 1.3.1 Interactive Approach
- 1.3.2 Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- 1.3.3 Problem‐Focused Approach
- 1.3.4 Diversity of Methods
- 1.4 MAIN RESEARCH METHODS IN ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
- 1.4.1 Questionnaire Studies
- 1.4.2 Laboratory Experiments
- 1.4.4 Field Studies
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This book aims to give an introduction in environmental psychology. We define environmental psychology as the discipline that studies the interplay between individuals and the built and natural environment. This means that environ-mental psychology examines the influence of the environment on human expe-riences, behaviour, and well‐being, as well a...
As the definition of environmental psychology already indicates, environmental psychology is primarily interested in the interaction between humans and the built and natural environment; it also explicitly considers how the environment influences behaviour as well as which factors affect behaviour that can help improve environmental quality. For ex...
Many environmental psychologists work in interdisciplinary settings, and closely collaborate with scholars from other disciplines. Each discipline pro-vides a different view on the phenomenon under study, while in combination, they provide a comprehensive picture on the problem in question. As outlined in the historical overview, interdisciplinary ...
Environmental psychologists do not conduct studies merely out of scientific curiosity about some phenomenon, but also to try to contribute towards solv-ing real‐life problems. This does not mean that environmental psychologists are not interested in theories. As evidenced in this book, a great deal of atten-tion is paid to building and testing theo...
Environmental psychology largely uses the same quantitative and qualitative methods as other psychological disciplines. However, whereas other psychological disciplines often have one dominant research paradigm, environmental psychol-ogy is characterized by the use of a wide diversity of methods (see Section 1.4 for an overview). Each research met...
The main research methods used in environmental research include question-naire studies, laboratory experiments, simulation studies, field studies, and case studies. Below we briefly discuss each of these methods. We first discuss meth-ods that can be used independent of specific environmental settings, followed by methods employed in artificial se...
Questionnaire studies aim to describe behaviours and to gather people’s percep-tions, opinions, attitudes, and beliefs about different issues. They are also widely used to establish relationships between two or more variables. For example, by asking people how often they engage in littering and how satisfied they are with the number of garbage bins...
Laboratory experiments are conducted in a controlled, mostly artificial, environment created for the purpose of the research. Laboratory experiments enable the establishment of causal relationships between variables, because of two basic features of experiments: manipulation and random assignment. Imagine that a researcher would like to examine whe...
In order to achieve high external validity without compromising too much on internal validity, many environmental psychologists use field studies and experiments. As field experiments are conducted in real‐life settings, they are relatively high in external validity. Yet, internal validity is relatively high as well, as the experimenter tries to co...
environmental psychology A subfield of psychology that studies the interplay between individuals and the built and natural environment. external validity The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized (applied) to other populations (population validity) or settings (ecological validity). External valid-ity is also known as generaliza...
What is environmental psychology? Give a short definition. Describe four key features of environmental psychology. Which concept has increasingly become a guiding and unifying principle for research in environmental psychology? Define this concept. Give three examples of problems studied by environmental psychologists. Why do environmental psycholo...
Addressing a variety of issues and practice settings, Handbook of Environmental Psychology is divided into five organized and accessible parts to provide a thorough overview of the theories, research, and applications at the forefront of environmental psychology today.
Sep 28, 2012 · This handbook is the first to comprehensively study the interdependent fields of environmental and conservation psychology. In doing so, it seeks to map the rapidly growing field of conservation psychology and its relationship to environmental psychology.
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Apr 22, 2016 · Robert Gifford is Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Dr. Dr. Gifford is the author of over 120 refereed publications and book chapters and five editions of the textbook Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice (5 th edition, 2014) .
