Behavior, Health, and Environmental Stress

1. Front Matter

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2. Stress Processes and the Costs of Coping

   • Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

   Pages 1-23

3. Correlational Field Methodology in the Study of Stress

   • Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

   Pages 25-45

4. Personal Control and Enviromental Stress

   • Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

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5. Environmental Stress and Health

   • Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

   Pages 103-142

6. Environmental Stress and Cognitive Performance

   • Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

   Pages 143-183

7. Contextual Analyses of Environmental Stress

   • Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

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8. Summary and Implications

   • Sheldon Cohen, Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols, David S. Krantz

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9. Back Matter

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Eight years ago, four psychologists with varying backgrounds but a common in­ terest in the impact of environmental stress on behavior and health met to plan a study of the effects of aircraft noise on children. The impetus for the study was an article in the Los Angeles Times about architectural interventions that were planned for several noise-impacted schools under the air corridor of Los Angeles Interna­ tional Airport. These interventions created an opportunity to study the same chil­ dren during noise exposure and then later after the exposure had been attenuated. The study was designed to test the generality of several noise effects that had been well established in laboratory experimental studies. It focused on three areas: the relationship between noise and personal control, noise and attention, and noise and cardiovascular response. Two years later, a second study, designed to replicate and extend findings from the first, was conducted.

• attention
• behavior
• children
• coping
• environment
• experiment
• health
• intervention
• methodology
• stress

• Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Sheldon Cohen

• University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA

  Gary W. Evans, Daniel Stokols

• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, USA

  David S. Krantz

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