Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Psychology in 2005"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and evaluated the effectiveness of interventions aiming to encourage households to reduce energy consumption by changing individual knowledge and perceptions rather than changing contextual factors (i.e., pay-off structure) which may determine households' behavioral decisions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined factors influencing the acceptability of energy policies aimed to reduce the emission of CO 2 by households and found that personal norms mediated the relationship between AR and acceptability judgements.

TL;DR: The authors explored the nature of people's emotional relationships to places in order to learn about the kinds of places that are meaningful for people, the role these places play in their lives and the processes by which they develop meaning.

TL;DR: The authors found that exposure to restorative environments facilitates recovery from mental fatigue, and that only participants exposed to the restorative environment improved their performance on the final attention test, and this improvement occurred whether they viewed the scenes in the standardized time condition or in the self-paced time condition.

TL;DR: In this paper, two alternative paths leading to civic activity are proposed: the social-emotional path, in which the relationship between place attachment and civic activity is mediated by local social capital (neighborhoods ties), and cultural path, consisting of cultural capital and interest in own roots.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of distractions, flexible use of workspace and personal control over the work environment on perceived job performance, job satisfaction, group cohesiveness, and inclinations to work alone or in an enclosed space and their interrelationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between place, climate, place attachment and place identity using Breakwell's four processes model of place identity (e.g. Twigger-Ross, Bonaiuto, and Breakwell).

TL;DR: This paper introduced a framework for discussing epistemological foundations of research traditions, and used it to characterize the body of place research, analyse recent critiques regarding the state of research, make a case for the value of diversity in thought, and explore the notion of scientific progress in relation to place research.

TL;DR: The authors empirically tested this argument by manipulating participants' objective self-awareness (OSA), which has been shown to increase participants' self-focus, but also increase the impact of individuals' attitudes and personality characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the independent and joint influences of stimulus screening, inhibitory ability, perceived privacy and task complexity on the satisfaction and performance of employees working in open-plan offices.

TL;DR: A study of the restorative benefits of a retreat experience at a Benedictine monastery was based on questionnaire responses by 521 visitors as discussed by the authors, and factor analysis of the reasons for coming yielded a four-factor solution that both supported and extended the Attention Restoration Theory (ART) model on which the study was based.

TL;DR: In this paper, the conceptualization of place as a process, rather than a static entity, is explored in personal interviews in and around Jackson, Wyoming, where three key themes or dimensions that were frequently described by interviewees are examined: (1) life stage/course, (2) searching for a feeling, and (3) commitment to a place.

TL;DR: A serious and escalating problem exists with respect to the status and meaning of "environmental values" in natural resource and protected area management contexts, and current extensions of meaning and use are not only conceptually and operationally problematic, but are impacting, in a very consequential way, on effective communication, collaboration, and management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the validity and reliability of three scales, Traffic Danger Perception Scale, Social Danger Perception scale, and Positive Potentiality of Outdoor Autonomy for Children Scale, to obtain quantitative instruments for these dimensions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of weather and temporal variations on violent behavior expressed as cases of homicides was evaluated in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil and the results showed that temporal variables are far more powerful for explaining levels of homicide than weather covariates.

TL;DR: This paper explored people's sense of place in the context of the changing nature of their biophysical surroundings and found that places were instilled with highly personal meanings and were vehicles for learning and personal growth, they represented family continuity and provided places of spiritual significance and emotional regulation.

TL;DR: This paper explored how members of a small town community on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand, perceive their everyday surroundings within the context of an environment that has rapidly changed, primarily due to tourism and associated development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested whether people display comparative optimism for environmental risks and the link between comparative optimism and pro-environmental activity and found that absolute perceived risk, ecological attitude and social value orientation were associated with behavior.

TL;DR: This paper examined people's emotional responses to threatening encounters with nature and found that high sensation seekers and men responded less often with negative emotion and avoidance tendencies, and more often with positive emotion and approach tendencies.

TL;DR: In this article, a 14-item scale was developed to assess the four views of nature identified by cultural theory, and the results, obtained in a sample of 300 residents of an industrialized area, support the relationships predicted by the theory.

TL;DR: The Residential Environment Assessment Tool is designed as a survey instrument, to be completed by an independent observer, to produce a contextual measure of a neighbourhood, reflecting both physical aspects and also the extent to which residents have established territoriality over the area.

TL;DR: In this paper, male and female participants explored two large-scale virtual shopping centres and were tested in a battery of tasks including wayfinding, directional and distance estimates, and a map placement task.

TL;DR: In this article, behavioural scientists have been involved in the psychosocially related problems of sanitation in order to find clues as to how to bring this issue to the attention of people in various cultures and gain their acceptance.

TL;DR: In this paper, Blais et al. assess the general well-being of elderly women living in their own houses or flats, while more specifically focussing on the wellbeing or enjoyment they feel in everyday life situations.

TL;DR: The findings showed that the QoL measures were related weakly (or not at all) to various demographic and socio-economic factors and the environmental factors, when added to the regression equations, significantly raised the variance explained.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of mood states and demographic factors in moderating preferences for natural environments, in children and adults, was explored in free-response questionnaires, and the results showed that the mood state relaxed produced a greater percentage of nature preference responses than stressed.

TL;DR: This article investigated individual differences in representations of a novel environment and found that individuals' differences in visual-spatial abilities predicted the types of environmental representations that adults formed and thus provide evidence against stage/sequential models that attribute differences in environmental representations exclusively to differences in experience.

TL;DR: Methods of subjective image evaluation and spatial analysis of soundscape formation are employed in studying the sound environments of urban street areas in Saga City, Japan to help understand the sound environment of urbanStreet areas more comprehensively and vividly.

TL;DR: The authors pointed out how the religious basis for place attachment can be identified, and how the actions people take to settle in specific places, as well as emergence of conflict among groups, though not inevitable, can be understood.