Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Psychology in 1988"

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of lighting level and room decor on interpersonal communication was investigated, and it was shown that brighter lighting would stimulate more general communication, lower lighting levels would encourage more intimate communication, and over time, lower light levels would dampen both general and intimate communication.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined people's affective reactions towards air pollution and some personality and demographic correlates of these reactions, including degree of anger and anxiety aroused by air pollution; perceived degree of pollution severity; propensity to pay towards pollution abatement; and methods of coping with air pollution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework for understanding the determinants of electric power transmission line siting and construction opposition and propose a solution to resolve the conflict between the public and the utilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of negative environmental change or stress are assumed to be linear, that is, the greater the stress, the more negative the outcome, while from an ecological and developmental perspective, environmental change is seen as having possible paradoxical (i.e., positive) outcomes as well, depending upon the type and timing of the outcome assessed, and situational and individual factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the evidence on whether classroom seating location in lecture-style classrooms influences college course grades and conclude that the influence is weak and of little general theoretical or practical importance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of thermal comfort is presented, with particular reference to contributions from environmental psychology, and three trends are distinguished, and delineated in terms of their concepts, methodology and research results.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a laboratory experiment in which 40 subjects were asked to plan for one of two activities to be carried out where they were (or, in the two control conditions, to wait in or to explore the same room).

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that liking for a place and positiveness of mood experienced there can, in certain circumstances, be enhanced by a previous violation of expectations and by an environment that had, temporarily, prevented execution of a plan.

TL;DR: In this paper, ten groups of four female introductory psychology students discussed fictional job candidates in a laboratory setting in a between-groups design comparing two levels of illuminance, 1,274 and 400 lux mean horizontal illuminances The dependent measures were conversational sound energy level, liking for group members, and evaluation of the successful job candidate.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the nature of environmental transactions taking place during such experiences is qualitatively different from more routine individual-setting interactions in that sustained physical and/or sensory involvement generates feedback which is concrete, clear, and inherently reinforcing, in contrast to the automatic responding which takes place in settings where feedback is non-novel and blurred.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of environmental overload and noise on helping behavior was assessed through a 2 × 3 experimental design including two levels of overload and three conditions on each site: without roadworks, roadworks without noise, and noisy roadworks.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the effect of exposure to subway noise over time on young children's visual vigilance performance and found that only girls' performance under verbal response mode conditions manifested adverse effects of exposure, while the effect varied as a function of the response mode, length of exposure and sex.

TL;DR: Experienced taxi drivers had better overall performance and used different strategies for the different geographical areas (Paris/ suburbs), but this was not the case for beginners.

TL;DR: This paper investigated children's representations of familiar places by means of verbal reporting and found that both children and adults mainly remembered the aspects of places which are constant constraints to actions, and that the importance of considering some qualitative-linguistic indexes was assessed by results showing, for instance, differences in children's discourse organization across conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of environmental preferences is reconsidered with particular reference to recent work on the prototypical attributes of housing environments, and the authors highlight the limitations of preference paradigms that use an analysis of prototypical environmental attributes as their base.

TL;DR: In this paper, the attitudes of residents of a small town in Dorset, England, towards local oil and nuclear developments were surveyed, and a survey sample included 480 respondents to a postal questionnaire asking for evaluations of the likely impacts of a new nuclear power station and of new inshore oil drilling in their neighbourhood.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a couple in therapy who underwent a process of becoming aware of the meanings they invest in the spatial organization of their home was presented, which played an active role in their therapy.

TL;DR: The conceptual staffing model significantly predicted both staff involvement and overload stress, and provided considerable support for the usefulness of the model in predicting staff experiences in service settings.