Environmental psychology

Environmental psychology = the effects of our enviroment on our psychology and the effects it has on our outcomes in life.

"'Traditionally, the field of environmental psychology has emphasized how the physical environment affects human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. However, much recent environmental research has stressed the other side of the coin - how human actions affect the environment.' (Oskamp & Schultz, 1998, p. 206)"

Scope
Although "environmental psychology" is arguably the best-known and more comprehensive description of the field, it is also known as environmental social sciences, architectural psychology, socio-architecture, ecological psychology, ecopsychology, behavioral geography, environment-behavior studies, person-environment studies, environmental sociology, social ecology, and environmental design research.

Topics


Possible topics within environmental psychology include:
 * Coping with disasters
 * Density and crowding
 * Defensible space
 * Environmental attitudes
 * Environmental behaviours
 * Environmental education
 * Human spatial behaviour
 * Natural environment
 * Nature-deficit disorder
 * Psychobiological effects of nature
 * Workplace environments
 * Category:Environmental psychology (Wikipedia)

Online resources

 * Psicología Ambiental: elementos básicos (A comprehensive introduction to environmental psychology, in Spanish)

Associations

 * Environmental psychology (34th division of the American Psychological Association)
 * Psychology and the Environment (Special Interest Group, Australian Psychological Society)
 * Psychology and climate change
 * Resources

Journals

 * Environment and Behavior
 * Most downloaded articles from the Journal of Environmental Psychology

Articles

 * Ecotherapy - the green agenda for mental health (UK Mind Week Report 2007)
 * Environmental psychology: An endangered species? (Reser, InPsych, August, 2008)
 * Current trends in environmental psychology (1996)
 * Scenes of nature trump technology in reducing low-level stress (June, 2008)
 * Green is good for you (2001)
 * Threats to the environment (poll, 2002)

Models

 * Pattern map of a conservation economy

Videos

 * The Abundant Childhood: Nature, Creativity & Health: An Evening with Richard Louv - Indianapolis Museum of Art