Origins of social psychology
Suggested that: B=ƒ(P, E)
Kurt Lewin?
Engines of economic growth
Urbanization
Refers to the beliefs that people hold about their environment
Environmental orientation
What one believes about what is right and what is wrong in our behavior toward the environment.
Environmental ethics
We give shape to our buildings and they, in turn, shape us
Winston Churchil?
Consist of a hut, group of huts or buildings or areas marked by overcrowding, deteriorating, unsanitary conditions.
Slum environment
Without significant and ongoing technological innovation, the human population would almost certainly outstrip the planet’s food supply.
Population bomb
Does not consider chemical and geological elements of the environment to be as important as living beings
Biocentric view
Formed a research group to study how the spatial/architectural setting of a psychiatric hospital can affect patients’ behaviour.
Ittelson and Proshansky
Refers to an overall evaluation of the conditions of life as experienced by an individual or a set of individuals
Quality of life
Refers to adapting attitudes and behaviours aiming to minimize any adverse effects on the natural environment
Environmental behavior
We are apart from the rest of nature and can manage nature to meet our increasing needs and wants.
Planetary management worldview
Characteristic of environmental psychology that studies violence in jails; weather and altruism; the design of the built environment in relation to crime, privacy, crowding, and territoriality
Stems from social psychology
Decrease in privacy, negative view of space, loss of control in social interactions
Effects of crowding
The decrease in forest areas for human advantage
Deforestation
Our success depends on learning how nature sustains itself and integrating such lessons from nature into the ways we think and act
Eco-centric worldview
The three levels of analysis
Analyse psychological processes
Enhance management of social space
Examine human interactions with nature
Accessibility to community facilities and services
Control on the use of toxic materials for building houses
A shelter for the inhabitants from the extremes of outdoor temperature
Healthy residential environment
Emphasizes the act of transmission of social and cultural patterns to each new generation. It is a form of an educational environment that affects more than a single generation
Social heredity
When we use the earth’s natural capital, we are borrowing from the earth and from future generations
Stewardship view