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Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice (4th ed., 2007)
by
Robert Gifford

 

 

Chapter 1: The Nature and Scope of Environmental Psychology
Chapter 2: Environmental Perception and Cognition
Chapter 3: Environmental Attitudes, Appraisals, and Assessments
Chapter 4: Personality and Environment
Chapter 5: Personal Space
Chapter 6: Territoriality
Chapter 7: Crowding
Chapter 8: Privacy
Chapter 9: Residential Environmental Psychology
Chapter 10: Urban Environmental Psychology
Chapter 11: Educational Environmental Psychology
Chapter 12: Workplace Environmental Psychology
Chapter 13: Natural Environmental Psychology
Chapter 14: Sustainability: Managing Limited Resources
Chapter 15: Designing More Habitable Environments
Epilog: Utopia Versus Entopia
Appendix: Publications, Graduate Schools, Websites, and Organizations
Name Index
Subject Index

 
   

 

Detailed Table of Contents

 

   

Chapter 1: The Nature and Scope of Environmental Psychology

  • What is Environmental Psychology?
  • The Roots and Edges of Environmental Psychology
  • Theories and Approaches in Brief
  • Research Methods in Environmental Psychology
  • Environmental Psychology Today

Chapter 2: Environmental Perception and Cognition

  • Environmental Perception
  • Spatial Cognition

Chapter 3: Environmental Attitudes, Appraisals, and Assessments

  • Environmental Attitudes: Concern for Places
  • Environmental Appraisals: Personal Impressions of Places
  • Environmental Assessments: Collective Impressions of Places
  • Two Observer-based Environmental Assessments

Chapter 4: Personality and Environment

  • Apologia, Background, and Current Situation
  • Traditional Personality Dimensions
  • Environmental Personality Dimensions
  • Some Uses of Personality in Environmental Design

Chapter 5: Personal Space

  • What Is Personal Space?
  • Measuring Personal Space
  • Influences on Personal Space
  • Personal Space and Human Behavior
  • Theories of Personal Space
  • Personal Space and Environmental Design

Chapter 6: Territoriality

  • What is Territoriality?
  • Measuring Territoriality
  • Influences on Territoriality
  • Territoriality and Human Behavior
  • Theories of Territoriality
  • Territoriality and Environmental Design

Chapter 7: Crowding

  • Crowding, Density, and Population
  • Influences on Crowding
  • High Density, Crowding, and Human Behavior
  • Theories of Crowding
  • Crowding and Environmental Design

Chapter 8: Privacy

  • What is Privacy?
  • Measuring Privacy
  • Influences on Privacy
  • Privacy and Human Behavior
  • Theories of Privacy
  • Privacy and Environmental Design

Chapter 9: Residential Environmental Psychology

  • What is Home?
  • Residential Preference, Choice, and Satisfaction
  • Environment and Behavior in the Residence
  • Stress and well-being in the residence
  • Residential Mobility
  • Residential Environmental Design

Chapter 10: Urban Environmental Psychology

  • Life in the City: Awful or Wonderful?
  • What is a Neighborhood? A City? An Urbanite?
  • Urbanization and Stress
  • Anti-Social Behavior in the Urban Environment
  • Helpfulness in the City
  • Everyday Behavior in the Urban Environment
  • Retail Environmental Psychology
  • Urban Environmental Design

Chapter 11: Educational Environmental Psychology

  • The Setting as a Whole
  • Interior Architecture and Design
  • Noise
  • Light and Color
  • Indoor Climate
  • Space
  • Environmental Competence
  • Learning and Environmental Design

Chapter 12: Workplace Environmental Psychology

  • Environmental psychology on the Job
  • Getting to Work: Commuting (and Other Car Use)
  • Sound, Noise, and Music
  • Indoor Climate
  • Air
  • Light, Color, and Windows
  • Space: Density and Arrangements
  • Travel: Getting away to a new environment
  • Work and Environmental Design

Chapter 13: Natural Environmental Psychology

  • Extra-Terrestrial and Atmospheric Forces
  • Nature as a Restorative Agent
  • Natural and Technological Hazards
  • Nature, Environmental Hazards, and Environmental Design

Chapter 14: Managing Limited Resources

  • Sustainability as a Commons Dilemma
  • Climate Change and Sustainability
  • What Influences Sustainability-Related Behavior
  • Theories of Social Dilemmas
  • Defection: Self-Interested Behavior
  • Air Pollution: A Social Dilemma
  • Water Conservation: A Social Dilemma
  • Energy Conservation: A Social Dilemma
  • Recycling: A Social Dilemma

Chapter 15: Designing More Habitable Environments

  • Social Design
  • Social Research in the Design Process
  • Stages in the Design Process
  • A Selection of Design Programs and Post-Occupancy Evaluations

Epilog: Utopia versus Entopia

  • The Essential, Challenging Discipline

Appendix: Publications, Graduate Schools, Websites, and Organizations

Name Index

Subject Index

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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