Environment and Behavior articles from September 1998

Environment and Behavior archives from September 1998

Neighbors, households and front porches: new urbanist community toll or mere nostalgia?
September 1, 1998... The front porch is undergoing a revival of interest and is attracting staunch advocates. New planning and design approaches tout the front porch as one element within a larger design context that can help restore a sense of community and...

The influence of museum exhibit design on immersion and psychological flow.
September 1, 1998... For most of this century, researchers have known that exploration of a museum environment occurs in a systematic fashion (Melton, 1935; Robinson, 1928). In recent decades, behavioral scientists have taken advantage of these systematic...

Toward a model of environmental activism.
September 1, 1998... People are highly concerned with the quality of the environment (Gagnon Thompson & Barton, 1994; Manzo, & Weinstein, 1987; Mohai, 1985; Prester, Rohrmann, & Schellhammer, 1987). They are in favor of cleaner lakes, the preservation of forests,...

Greener still? An empirical examination of Eckersley's ecocentric approach. (R. Eckersley)
September 1, 1998... The split between ecocentrism and anthropocentrism is "the most fundamental area of divergence" in green political thought today (Eckersley, 1992, p. 33). Several theorists have, in various ways, attempted to locate this distinction. Naess...

The activation of environmental norms: extending Schwartz's model. (S.H. Schwartz)
September 1, 1998... Several theoretical frameworks exist for considering how individuals decide whether to engage in different forms of proenvironmental behavior. These include the subjective expected utility model and the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991),...

Designing effective instructional signs with schema theory: case studies of polystyrene recycling.
September 1, 1998... On occasion, we are told about human indifference to environmental concerns, even in the face of signs or rules to the contrary. Sometimes these incidents involve hiking, mountain biking, and camping trespasses that degrade the environment or...