Environmental Psychology

Education Category: General
Ages: 16+

Environmental Psychology elective at Leiden University (2020-2021)

Lecture 1: Setting the Scene

The focus of the course is on:

The relations between persons and environments
The social origin and meaning of (many) man-environment interactions
Opportunities for ‘change for the

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Environmental Psychology 2 - Urban environment

Environmental Psychology elective at Leiden University (2020-2021)

Lecture 2: Going Into Town (the urban environment)

Pros and cons of living in an urban environment

+ More employment opportunity

+Cities are exciting, lively and diverse

+More cultural, educational and medical resources

- Crowdedness, information overload.

- High density

-Pollution

-Crime

Crowdedness

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Environmental Psychology 3 - Nature

Environmental Psychology elective at Leiden University (2020-2021)

Lecture 3: Nature (taking a break)

People have been recommended to go to onature for its well-being effects since (at least) the 19th century

Epidemological research: understanding what factors determin a large population to get sick

De Vries et al., 2003. Natural Environments—Healthy Environments? An Exploratory Analysis of the

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Environmental Psychology 4 -Spatial planning and design

Environmental Psychology elective at Leiden University (2020-2021)

Lecture 4: Spatial planning and design

Environmental perception

Compared to traditional perception research:

Perceiver is in the scene
Perceiver is purposive, has a plan
Stimuli are complex (Berleyne’s three classes of stimulus properties):

Psychophysical: intensity of stimulation, brightness of colors, volume of sound

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Environmental Psychology 5 - Acting Green

Environmental Psychology elective at Leiden University (2020-2021)

Lecture 5: Acting green - sustainable behavior

Evolutionary perspective:

Evolutionary perspective, focusing on:
- Ultimate vs proximate explanations
- Stone Age Brain in 21th century world
Survival and reproduction
- Not of individuals but of genes
Manifest in 5 “ancestral” tendencies

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Environmental Psychology 6 - Sustainable intervention

Environmental Psychology elective at Leiden University (2020-2021)

Lecture 6: Sustainable interventions

Schultz, P. W., 2014. Strategies for promoting proenvironmental behavior.

Community Based Social Marketing and a strategy for choice of intervention techniques

Five principles:

Identify specific behavior
Identify barriers and incentives
Program development
Pilot test
Full scale implementation and

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