Experiencing the Environment

"The purpose of this volume is to explore theory, problem formulation, and methodology in "experiencing the environment." In this embryonic field, the writings of a number of individuals already stand out as representative of disƯ tinctive viewpoints. In order to facilitate further development of the field, a conference! was proposed to gather in one place representatives of a number of major viewpoints with regard to the embryonic field of "environmental psychology." It was hoped that a colloquy among such representatives would facilitate a clarification of the similarities and differences between the various perspectives, and might enable proponents of any given point of view to benefit from the insights of others with different orientations. Hopefully, it might also promote a greater articulation for this emerging field of inquiry. With these ends in mind, the sponsors of the conference asked the various prospective participants to present their theoretical positions and representative research illustrative of those positions. Some of the perspectives represented at the conference emphasized the point that the construal of phenomena depends heavily on the values and needs of perceivers. Implicit in this kind of position is the thesis that anyone who seeks to describe a complex happening is likely to shape it in terms of presupƯ positions, biases, etc., that may not be shared by others"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-4 Some Behavioral Effects of the Physical Environment....Pages 5-18 Dimensionalizing the Environmental Manifold....Pages 19-53 The Personality Research Paradigm in Environmental Psychology....Pages 55-79 Specialization and the Varieties of Environmental Experience....Pages 81-116 Transcendental Experience....Pages 117-131 Experiencing the Environment as Hazard....Pages 133-156 From Church to Laboratory to National Park....Pages 157-185 The Nature of Environmental Experience....Pages 187-206 Exploratory Applications of the Organismic—Developmental Approach to Transactions of Men-in-Environments....Pages 207-233 Afterword....Pages 235-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-244 I. Introduction.- II. Some Behavioral Effects of the Physical Environment.- III. Dimensionalizing the Environmental Manifold.- IV. The Personality Research Paradigm in Environmental Psychology.- V. Specialization and the Varieties of Environmental Experience: Empirical Studies within the Personality Paradigm.- VI. Transcendental Experience.- VII. Experiencing the Environment as Hazard.- VIII. From Church to Laboratory to National Park: A Program of Research on Excess and Insufficient Populations in Behavior Settings.- IX. The Nature of Environmental Experience.- X. Exploratory Applications of