Grand Challenges in Environmental Psychology

Frontiers in Psychology

Patrik Sörqvist¹ 

关键词: environmental psychology;    grand challenges;    sociophysical environment;    built environment;    natural environment;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00583

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Environmental psychology is the subdiscipline of psychological science that deals with psychological processes engaged in encounters between people and the built and natural environment (Stern, 2000). It covers all aspects of human behavior and mental life in relation to the sociophysical environment, whether considered as ambient environmental factors (e.g., noise, temperature, lighting), specific behavior settings (e.g., schools, offices, hospitals), the basic infrastructure of everyday life (e.g., energy and transportation systems), or in a broader sense, with regard to landscape and the relationship between built and natural aspects of human environments. Human behavior and mental life include, but are not limited to, perception and cognition, emotion, stress and mental fatigue, decision making, and social interactions, as manifest in covert and overt behavior. In short, environmental psychology is concerned with the facts of bi-directional influence in people-environment interactions; it considers how the sociophysical environment influences people and how people influence the environment (Gärling, 2014).

【 授权许可】

CC BY