Overview
- Examines how zoos and aquariums impact public behavior and opinion about the environment
- Acts as an overview of psychological approaches to zoos for industry professionals
- Consolidates research that has been scattered across the journal ecology without a logical disciplinary focus
Part of the book series: Psychology and Our Planet (PP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book summarizes a range of psychological research into how zoos and aquariums operate in the minds of visitors and the broader public. Bringing together core findings from emerging international research, the book provides data-based summaries that situate the content in the larger context of how cultural institutions shape public understanding. The focus of this book is to bring into a single resource, the major strains of research that have explored how zoos and aquariums are situated in public consciousness, to ground the discourses around what zoos and aquariums do in the empirical data and evidence, and to find opportunities to summarize well-established fact to support future research expanding on the known.
Among the topics discussed:
- History of zoo and aquarium development
- The role of zoos and aquariums in environmental literacy
- Empathy development at zoos
- Applying behavior change theories to the zoo visitor’s experience
- Social radiation of ideas from cultural institutions
Professional practitioners, zoo industry professionals, and business leaders will find this book an invaluable guide to the psychological literature surrounding the zoo industry.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John Fraser, Ph.D. AIA is a conservation psychologist who has dedicated over 30 years to exploring the role of zoos and aquariums in society. He is President & CEO of Knology, a past president of the Society for Environment, Population, and Conservation Psychology, Editor of Curator: the Museum Journal, and editor of this book series.
Joe E. Heimlich, Ph.D. is Sr. Director for Research for the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) and a researcher in COSI’s Center for Research and Evaluation where he studies informal learning in zoos, nature centers, science centers, and other museums. He is also Professor Emeritus with Ohio State University.
Kelly Riedinger, Ph.D. is a Senior Researcher and program lead in informal, K-12 and connected learning for the STEM Research Center at Oregon State. Kelly has been involved in the zoo/aquarium field as a practitioner, researcher and evaluator for 20 years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind
Editors: John Fraser, Joe E. Heimlich, Kelly Riedinger
Series Title: Psychology and Our Planet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84942-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84941-2Published: 17 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84944-3Published: 17 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84942-9Published: 16 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-1916
Series E-ISSN: 2662-1924
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 178
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Environmental Sociology