Environmental Psychology : Principles and Practices Bankston Cotton
- ISBN: 9781788823296
- Edition: 1st
- ©Year: 2020
- List Price : 150
About the Book
Environmental psychology maintained its dual orientation to research and application and proceeded further toward integrating them. Researchers conducted hypothesis-testing studies in controlled setting and practitioners applied research findings in facility programming, design and post occupancy evaluation. The clearest integration appeared in environmental design research, natural setting to improve environmental design and to test scientific hypotheses. Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings. The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments. Environmental psychology is a direct study of the relationship between an environment and how that environment affects its inhabitants. Specific aspects of this field work by identifying a problem and through the identification of said problem, discovering a solution.The solutions can aid in making society function better as a whole and create a wealth of knowledge about the inner workings of societies. This book will prove informative and useful to academics as well as laymen. This book deals with all the major aspects of environmental psychology. It traces historical perspective and scope of environmental psychology and provides the reader with the methodological and theoretical perspective of the field.
Contents: 1. Environmental Psychology an Introduction, 2. Environmental Stresses,
3. Theoretical Orientations of Psychology, 4. Spatio- Physical Dimensions of Behaviour,
5.Technological Catastrophe in Environmental Psychology, 6. Urban Environment and Stress, 7.Towards Better Environment.
Bankston Cotton is Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies. He was Program Director for Social and Developmental Psychology in the Division of Behavioral and Neural Sciences at the National Science Foundation. He is the author of over 85 refereed publications and book chapters and five editions of the textbook Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice. As well as being the editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology. His paper on the motivations of nascent entrepreneurs was the winner of the Entrepreneurship Research Conference Best Paper Award. Bankston Cotton serves on the editorial board of Applied Psychology, Architectural Science Review, and Global Environmental Change. He is a Fellow of the National Psychological Society, a member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.