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

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):

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

Environmental Psychology elective at Leiden University (2020-2021)

Lecture 6: Sustainable interventions

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

1. Identify specific behavior
2. Identify barriers and incentives
3. Program development
4. Pilot test
5. Full scale implementation and