Environmental Psychology and Social Psychology

Abstract

This paper examines the newly developing field of Environmental Psychology and its relationship to Social Psychology. Some major research topics concerned with environment and behavior are summarized, along with an analysis of dominant research values of this emerging field. The paper also considers some possible ways in which Environmental Psychology can enhance social psychological research and theorizing, and ways in which the study of environment and behavior can make salient (and perhaps call into question) certain assumptions implicit in present day Social Psychology.