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Psychological Consequences of Environmental Degradation [PDF]
Psychological aspects of environmental degradation in Burkina Faso are studied among two groups of Sahel dwellers, namely the Mossi (agriculturalists, n = 402) and the Fulani (pastoralists, n = 160). Compared to pastoralists, agriculturalists were more stressed and marginalized, the psychological consequences of degradation studied here.
van Haaften, E.H., van de Vijver, F.J.
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PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AN UNAVOIDABLE CHALLENGE [PDF]
This work reflects on the role of psychology in the face of a deteriorating environment, showing a symbiosis between two psychological disciplines, environmental psychology and social intervention psychology.
Miguel López-Cabanas +1 more
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AbstractWe explore environmental cognition, personality traits, social norms, environmental stress, and the healing environment. Cognition is the learning process of identifying the light, sound, smell, and feel of the space around us and then forming concepts of what we sense and then create visual images in our minds of what we are perceiving.
Wei-Ta Fang +2 more
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Mental health in the workplace is a societal challenge with serious economical and human costs. Most prevalent mental disorders in the workforce (e.g., depression), however, are preventable.
Susan Gritzka +5 more
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Fostering widespread concern for conservation problems requires a robust understanding of the life experiences that positively contribute to an individual's conservation attitudes and behaviours.
Jessica Pinder +2 more
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A comparative analysis of selected recommendations of the feng shui school of form, Alexander et al.’s pattern language, and findings of environmental psychology [PDF]
Feng shui is a traditional Chinese art of creating a supportive living environment. Despite many research contributions on feng shui, very few verify (comparatively or experimentally) the actual effectiveness of feng shui recommendations.
Špela Kryžanowski
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Effects of Visual Environment on Students’ Adjustment to Stress
The impact of stress on visual landscape perception was assessed in a photo-based survey. The survey was first performed when the student participants were expected to be stressed just prior to an important examination.
Sevgi Yılmaz
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The paradox of environmental psychology. [PDF]
Author(s): Stokols, D | Abstract: Scientific and applied contributions of environmental psychology are examined in relation to 6 trends that have occurred in this field over the past 3 decades: (a) development of novel constructs and methods for analyzing the links between environment and behavior; (b) increased emphases on cross-paradigm research, (c)
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Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their built and natural environments. Great progress has been made in the areas of environmental psychology by researchers form many countries ...
Xu Jun Hua, Zhu Lei Ye, Wang Hai Bin
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In order to understand value recognition deeply, the research was taken to 1128 Xingjiang minority college students in inner-mainland 36 universities of China by the questionnaire with five dimensions which political value, moral value, cultural ...
Hai-Long Zhu
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