- "Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the relationship between humans and the external world."
The study of how people interact with their physical environment and how it affects their behavior and well-being.
Physical environment: The physical characteristics of a space and how they affect human behavior and well-being.
Mental maps and spatial cognition: How people perceive and navigate their surroundings, and how this affects their behavior.
Sustainability: The environmental impact of human activities, and how changes in behavior and design can reduce this impact.
Biophilia: The innate connection between humans and nature, and how exposure to natural elements can improve well-being.
Environmental stressors: The negative effects of environmental factors on health and well-being, such as air pollution or noise.
Crowding and personal space: The psychological effects of being in crowded or confined spaces, and how people use and define their personal spaces.
Environmental aesthetics: How the visual and sensory qualities of a space can affect mood, behavior, and well-being.
Environmental planning and policy: The role of government and urban planners in creating sustainable and healthy environments.
Place attachment and identity: How people form emotional connections to their environments, and how this affects their behavior and well-being.
Time perception: The subjective experience of time in different environments, and how this affects behavior and well-being.
Spatial cognition: Focuses on how the physical environment is perceived, remembered, and navigated.
Environmental perception: Studies how the environment is interpreted by individuals, including aesthetic perception, place attachment, and environmental preferences.
Environmental aesthetics: The study of how the physical environment affects people's emotional responses and preferences.
Pro-environmental behavior: Investigates factors that influence individuals' environmentally friendly or sustainable behavior.
Environmental stress: Studies the impact of environmental factors on people's mental and physical health, including noise pollution or poor air quality.
Human factors engineering: Studies how individuals interact with technology, machines or physical workspaces and how these interaction impacts performance and well-being.
Eco-psychology: Explores the relationship between people and nature, including how exposure to nature affects mental health and well-being.
Sustainable design: Involves the planning and design of buildings, landscapes, and communities that reduce environmental impacts and promote sustainability.
Community design: Studies how the built environment can impact individuals and communities' social interactions, as well as how design can foster community identity.
Human-environment interactions: Investigates the dynamic relationship between human behavior, technology, and the natural and built environment.
- "It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals."
- "Environmental psychology emphasizes how humans change the environment and how the environment changes humans' experiences and behaviors."
- "The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments."
- "Environmental psychology was not fully recognized as its own field until the late 1960s."
- "The field has been committed to the development of a discipline that is both value oriented and problem oriented, prioritizing research aimed at solving complex environmental problems in the pursuit of individual well-being within a larger society."
- "When solving problems involving human-environment interactions, whether global or local, one must have a model of human nature that predicts the environmental conditions under which humans will respond well."
- "It explores such dissimilar issues as common property resource management, wayfinding in complex settings, the effect of environmental stress on human performance, the characteristics of restorative environments, human information processing, and the promotion of durable conservation behavior."
- "Lately, alongside the increased focus on climate change in society and the social sciences and the re-emergence of limits-to-growth concerns, there has been an increased focus on environmental sustainability issues within the field."
- "Geographers, economists, landscape architects, policy-makers, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and product developers all have discovered and participated in this field."
- "Although 'environmental psychology' is arguably the best-known and most comprehensive description of the field, it is also known as human factors science, cognitive ergonomics, ecological psychology, ecopsychology, environment–behavior studies, and person–environment studies."
- "Closely related fields include architectural psychology, socio-architecture, behavioral geography, environmental sociology, social ecology, and environmental design research."
- "The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments."
- "The field has been committed to the development of a discipline that is both value oriented and problem oriented, prioritizing research aimed at solving complex environmental problems in the pursuit of individual well-being within a larger society."
- "The field develops such a model of human nature while retaining a broad and inherently multidisciplinary focus."
- "It explores such dissimilar issues as common property resource management, wayfinding in complex settings, the effect of environmental stress on human performance, the characteristics of restorative environments, human information processing, and the promotion of durable conservation behavior."
- "Lately, alongside the increased focus on climate change in society and the social sciences and the re-emergence of limits-to-growth concerns, there has been an increased focus on environmental sustainability issues within the field."
- "Geographers, economists, landscape architects, policy-makers, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and product developers all have discovered and participated in this field."
- "Although 'environmental psychology' is arguably the best-known and most comprehensive description of the field, it is also known as human factors science, cognitive ergonomics, ecological psychology, ecopsychology, environment–behavior studies, and person–environment studies."
- "Closely related fields include architectural psychology, socio-architecture, behavioral geography, environmental sociology, social ecology, and environmental design research."