Environment and Behavior articles

Recent articles from Environment and Behavior

Green common spaces and the social integration of inner-city older adults.
November 1, 1998... Social relationships are important to individuals in all cultures and across the entire human life span. Social ties are especially important for elderly people. Elderly individuals with strong social connections have lower levels of mortality (Engedal, 1996; Sabin, 1993; Steinbach, 1992),...

Children's use of the street as a playground in Abu-Nuseir, Jordan.
November 1, 1998... In urban societies, the family and the street are important agents in the education and socialization of children; however, as a result of the reduced extended family in the urban setting, children can find their social experience quite limited. Children who live in cities have to rely on...

The affective structure of consumer stiuations.
November 1, 1998... Mehrabian and Russell (1974) maintain that approach-avoidance behaviors in physical and social environments are mediated by three affective responses: pleasure, arousal, and dominance. Several authors have attempted to operationalize Mehrabian and Russell's approach to environmental...

Type of commute, behavioral aftereffects, and cardiovascular activity: a field experiment.
November 1, 1998... North Americans seem to have a love-hate relationship with their automobiles. On one hand, workers associate driving with flow, a positive emotional slate that is characterized by the effortless passage of time (Csikszentmihalyi & LeFevre, 1989). On the other hand, a survey of 20,000 U.S....

Windows in the workplace: sunlight, view, and occupational stress.
November 1, 1998... There is a growing interest in the environmental psychology of the workplace, with a plethora of studies establishing the existence of empirical relationships between objective characteristics of the physical environment, or the appraisal of those characteristics, and both work attitudes and...