An environmental education intervention in a university conservation-related course was designed to decrease students' errors in consensus estimates for proenvironmental intentions, that is, their errors in guessing their classmates' proenvironmental intentions. Before and after the course, the authors measured two intentions regarding willingness…

Research on territorial behavior has focused on animal populations, and relatively little has dealt with territoriality in humans, except in the area of human sports. This study was an investigation of the prior-residence effect on children's behavior in social dilemmas. The analysis was carried out by means of research designed for preschool…

Crews of 18 U.S. Navy combat vessels rated their living and working conditions aboard ship, including degree of crowding. Three different types of measures corresponding to different definitions of crowding were constructed. These separate crowding measures correlated uniquely with satisfaction and illness criteria. (Author/MA)

A study of the frequency of looking both ways before crossing a street revealed that both males and females tend to look both ways more often when accompanied by juveniles than when alone, and that when males and females are together, males look both ways more often than do females. (Author/MA)

Presents a methodological attempt to discover the fundamental semantic dimensions underlying people's perceptions of the physical environment, applying both nonverbal and verbal techniques. Analyses reveal three significant dimensions upon which people base their judgments of the physical environment: evaluation, urbanization, and organization.…

In a study using 200 undergraduates, results indicated that approach toward an environment and the desire to affiliate there are influenced by the emotion-eliciting quality of that environment. (Author/MA)

Study found that social density is more strongly related to crowding ratings than is spatial density. Predictors of pleasantness include work-play, amount of space, waiting, and percent of people alone or unaccompanied. (Author/MA)

Two concepts describing human special behavior are delineated. A field experiment was designed to test whether personal belongings left as markers in public areas (i.e. cafeteria setting) function to protect a territory or to maintain a comfortable social distance. It is suggested the term territory" be restricted to situations in which the space…

Social and psychological effects of residing in overloaded social environments are discussed. Data are presented suggesting that the interior architecture of the corridor-design dormitories requires residents to interact with too many others, leading residents to experience stress and develop potentially stress-reducing behavior. (JR)

Presents a mathematical technique for building perceptual models of urban areas. Uses techniques to model perceptual neighborhoods within a city and to explore how residential burglary rates vary between the interiors and borders of the neighborhood. (Author/MA)

Reports that social class indicators explain relatively little variance in environmental attitudes accounted for by "class." Education is subordinate to age as a predictor of environmental attitudes and much of the gross effect of education is the result of the generally high educational backgrounds of young adults. (Author/MA)

The suites investigated in this study consisted of three small rooms housing four students and opening onto double-load corridors. Potential for interaction with many students is offered, but the likelihood of roommate incompatibility is increased. Satisfaction with suites was increased when students choose their own roommates. (JP)

Privacy is conceptualized as a dynamic, interpersonal boundary control process which regulates access to the self. Coupled with desired and achieved privacy levels, a series of social interaction cases are described involving satisfactory and unsatisfactory input-output relationships with others. Mechanisms used to implement desired levels of…

The nature of architectural programming of resident behavior in college dormitories is discussed. Design factors contributing to student dissatisfaction with dormitory living are explored in relationship to student activities, needs for various, purposes, and intellectual and emotional needs of young people who are students. (JP)

This study sampled 198 studentsin seven dormitories and 55 suites in an effort to elucidate the relationsh ip between social environment as measured by the University Residence Environment Scales, and subject mood states, friendship patterns, and perception of the architecture of dormitories. (JP)