- "Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the relationship between humans and the external world."
Study of the psychological effects of urban environments on human behavior and well-being.
Urbanization: The process by which cities grow and expand, including factors such as migration, economic development, and infrastructure.
Community Design: The way that urban spaces are planned and designed, including parks, streets, buildings, and public spaces.
Social Organization: The ways that people interact and form social groups within urban settings, including factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Crime: The impact of crime on urban communities, including victimization, fear of crime, and the use of police and other interventions.
Transportation: The role of transportation in shaping urban environments, including the design and use of roads, public transportation, and pedestrian infrastructure.
Noise: The effects of noise pollution on city residents, including the impact on health, stress levels, and social interactions.
Crowding: The influence of crowding on urban residents, including the effects on behavior, cognition, and emotional well-being.
Air Pollution: The impact of air pollution on urban residents, including the effects on health, cognitive capacity, and quality of life.
Green Space: The effect of green space on urban residents, including the impact on mental health, physical health, and social cohesion.
Place Attachment: The emotional and psychological connections that people form with specific urban environments, including neighborhoods, homes, and public spaces.
Urban Identity: The ways that people identify with their local urban communities, including factors such as shared values, history, and traditions.
Environmental Justice: The unequal distribution of environmental harms and benefits among urban residents, including factors such as race, income, and social inequality.
Urban Renewal: The process of revitalizing urban areas through economic, social, and physical development, including factors such as gentrification, displacement, and community involvement.
Human-Environment Interaction: The ways that people interact with and adapt to urban environments, including factors such as environmental sustainability, resilience, and urban ecology.
Wellbeing: The overall assessment of Urban psychology with respect to human wellbeing in Urban environments.
Social Inclusion: The sociological concept of including or integrating members of a minority group into mainstream society or equal footing without loss of their own cultural traits.
Sensory Affordances: How different sensory inputs as a result of stated topics influence focus, attention and affect in different settings.
Symbolic and Physical Order: The perception, cognition and behavioural effects that people have within Urban environments based on individual's ability to perceive or generate symbolic or physical order.
Technology Adaptation: The way that technology has become integrated into Urban spaces and how people adapt to, identify with, and interact with it in different environments.
Social Housing: The dynamic of social housing in urban environment and how such factors can influence social identity, mental health, social relationship and living standards.
Environmental Perception and Cognition: Studies how people perceive and process environmental information in urban spaces.
Environmental Preference and Aesthetics: Focuses on individual preferences for certain environmental qualities, such as the design and layout of urban spaces, and how these preferences affect well-being and productivity.
Crowding and Personal Space: Examines the effects of crowdedness and personal space on behavior, emotion, and interpersonal relationships in urban environments.
Noise and Vibration: Studies the effects of noise and vibration in urban spaces on health and well-being, including both physiological and psychological impacts.
Environmental Stress: Examines the effects of urban stressors such as pollution, traffic congestion, and crime on physical and mental health.
Wayfinding and Navigation: Focuses on how people navigate urban environments, including the use of landmarks, cognitive maps, and spatial orientation.
Restorative Environments: Explores the relationship between nature and well-being in urban environments, including the restorative benefits of green spaces and natural settings.
Urban Sustainability: Examines the environmental impacts of urban development, including the effects of urbanization on natural habitats and resources.
Social Interaction and Behavior: Studies the social dynamics and behavior of people within urban environments, including the effects of social norms and group dynamics on behavior.
Urban Design and Planning: Emphasizes the role of design and planning in creating functional, safe, and aesthetically pleasing urban environments that promote well-being and social cohesion.
- "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."