Experiencing the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Seymour Wapner, Saul B. Cohen, Bernard Kaplan

   Pages 1-4

3. Some Behavioral Effects of the Physical Environment

   • James A. Russell, Albert Mehrabian

   Pages 5-18

4. Dimensionalizing the Environmental Manifold

   • Joachim F. Wohlwill, Imre Kohn

   Pages 19-53

5. The Personality Research Paradigm in Environmental Psychology

   • Kenneth H. Craik

   Pages 55-79

6. Specialization and the Varieties of Environmental Experience

   • Brian R. Little

   Pages 81-116

7. Transcendental Experience

   • David Lowenthal, Hugh C. Prince

   Pages 117-131

8. Experiencing the Environment as Hazard

   • Robert W. Kates

   Pages 133-156

9. From Church to Laboratory to National Park

   • Allan W. Wicker, Sandra Kirmeyer

   Pages 157-185

10. The Nature of Environmental Experience

    • William H. Ittelson, Karen A. Franck, Timothy J. O’Hanlon

    Pages 187-206

11. Exploratory Applications of the Organismic—Developmental Approach to Transactions of Men-in-Environments

    • Bernard Kaplan, Seymour Wapner, Saul B. Cohen

    Pages 207-233

12. Afterword

    • Seymour Wapner, Saul B. Cohen, Bernard Kaplan

    Pages 235-236

13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-244

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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 dis­ 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 presup­ positions, biases, etc. , that may not be shared by others.

• behavior
• complex
• development
• environment
• environmental psychology
• methodology
• mind
• psychology
• research

• Clark University, USA

  Seymour Wapner, Saul B. Cohen, Bernard Kaplan

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