Plenum Social Ecology

1 Emergence of a New Perspective.- The Human Dimension in Architecture.- In Search of New Knowledge.- Assessing the Impact of the Built Environment.- Institutional Settings.- The Urban Environment.- Microinterpersonal Behavior.- Crowding.- A Working Definition of Environmental Psychology.- Placing Perspective in Perspective.- A Dynamic Perspective.- Agenda for This Book.- References.- I Environmental Coping.- 2 Street Life and High-Rise Public Housing.- The Social Fabric of the Ghetto.- A Naturalistic Field Study.- Contrasting Housing Environments.- Behavior Mapping.- Outdoor Social Activity.- Reclaiming Social Space.- Using Outdoor Space.- Reclaiming Functional Space.- Some Implications for Urban Design.- Summary.- References.- 3 Social Coping and Environmental Satisfaction in a University Megadorm.- An Environmental Survey.- Survey Measures.- Social Competence.- Social Coping.- Environmental Satisfaction.- Survey Administration.- Dissatisfaction in the Megadorm.- Satisfaction and Social Competence.- Coping and Social Competence.- Coping and Satisfaction.- Applying the Survey Findings.- Summary.- References.- 4 Coping with Environmental Change: A Social Systems Model.- Ward Remodeling.- Evaluating the Effects of Change.- Increased Social Activity.- A Social Systems Model of Coping.- Petrification.- Unfreezing.- Resistance.- Personalization.- Environmental Competence.- Reinterpreting Resistance.- Summary.- References.- II Social Accommodation.- 5 Social Isolation and Seating Patterns in an Experimental Hospital Dayroom.- An Investigation in an Experimental Dayroom.- Experimental Measures.- Diminished Social Interaction.- Hypothesized Effects.- Free Setting.- Loss of Self-Direction.- Further Social Impacts.- Verbal Interaction.- Conversation.- More Subtle Effects.- Unobtrusive Measures.- Lack of Awareness.- Some Design Implications.- Summary.- References.- 6 Invasion of Privacy and Self-Disclosure in a Counseling Setting.- What We Know about Self-Disclosure.- A Laboratory Analogue.- Interviewing Students.- Interview and Postsession Tests.- Confederate.- Measuring Self-Disclosure.- Social Accommodation: A Reduction of Self-Disclosure..- A Complex Picture of Accommodation.- Lack of Awareness.- Why the Dividers Failed.- Coping and Accommodation by the Interviewers.- Some Implications for Counseling.- Summary.- References.- 7 The Unresponsive Urbanite: Personal versus Situational Determinants.- A Survey Study.- Helping Scale.- Settings.- Requests.- Additional Measures.- Urban-Rural Effects on Altruism.- Main Effects.- Interactions.- Urban Fear.- Social Accommodation in the City.- Interactional Complexity.- The Toll of Fear.- Underplaying Overload.- A Note of Caution.- Summary.- References.- III Environmental Schematization.- 8 Sex Differences in Schematizing the Behavioral Environment.- A Study of Environmental Schematization.- Measures of Schematization.- Sex Differences in Personalization.- Childhood Environment.- Present Environment.- Sex Differences in Social Emphasis.- Childhood Environment.- Present Environment.- Some Speculation on Sex Differences in Environmental Schematization.- Summary.- References.- 9 Errors in Cognitive Mapping: A Behavioral Interpretation.- Designing an Interactional Study.- Mapping and Behavioral Measures.- Cognitive Maps.- Personal Behavior.- Collective Behavior.- Scoring the Cognitive Maps.- Spatial Zones Based on Map Borders.- Spatial Zones Based on Frequency of Spatial Features.- Relating Campus Behavior to the Map Zones.- Collective Behavior.- Personal Behavior.- Personal Behavior and Cognitive Distortions.- Size Exaggeration.- Centrifugal Distortion.- Reinterpreting Mapping Errors.- Implications for Urban Mapping.- Summary.- References.- IV Synthesis.- 10 Implications for the Field of Environment and Behavior.- Summing Up Where We Have Been.- Coping with Environmental Challenges.- Subtle Accommodations to Environmental Constraint.- Uniquely Personal Environmental Schemata.- Derived Postulates.- Implications for the Study of Environment and Behavior.- Theoretical Development.- Research Strategy.- Application: Toward a Socially Relevant Environmental Psychology.- References.- Author Index.