Research in Environmental Psychology at Knox College: Frank
T. McAndrew, Ph.D.
Environmental
Psychology is the
study of the relationship between humans and their physical
environment, and it is an area that I got interested in way back in my
graduate school days.
I have written a book on the subject, Environmental Psychology
(Brooks/Cole, 1993), and I am on the editorial review board of
Environment & Behavior and The Journal of
Environmental Psychology.
I was also honored to have been identified as one of the "key
individuals"
in the history of environmental psychology by a survey of over 300
researchers in the field conducted in 2005. My research
interests
in this area have given me a number of exciting
opportunities. For example, I worked with the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers and the Florida Department of Community Affairs on their Carrying Capacity Study in the Florida Keys,
and I have also worked with the Brookfield Zoo
in Chicago on the design of interactive exhibits. During the summer of
2003, I had the opportunity to spend several weeks in the Czech
Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia as a participant in a seminar on
Central Europe's environmental crisis sponsored by the Mellon Foundation
through the "Global Partner's Project." In the summer of 2007 I
was supposed to spend a week in Costa
Rica studying sustainable development
with the same organization, but a badly timed illness prevented me from making the trip.
My most recent environmental psych studies have been concerned with the
emotional attachment between people and the places that they live, an
interest which grew out of my earlier work on human territorial
behavior. If you are interested in this work and want a copy of the Rootedness Scale,
click on the link. I am also in the early stages of a project on the
environmental psychology of haunted houses. A list of
environmental psychology presentations and publications from the Knox
College Psychology Department follows; most
of the co-authors are former Knox College students. One of
these students, Paul
Harris,
even went on to become a real, live environmental psychologist.
Paul has a worked in a variety of academic and applied
settings, and he is currently a psychology professor at Rollins College
in Florida. Finally, check out the web page for my course on
environmental
psychology.
Brown,
K.W., Kasser, T. (2005) Are Psychological and Ecological
well-being
compatible? The Role of Values, Mindfulness, and Lifestyle.
Social Indicators
Research, 74, 349-368.
McAndrew,
F.T. (2000, January). Social and Psychological Factors to Consider in
the Construction of Carrying Capacity Models. Workshop presentation at
the Florida Keys
Carrying Capacity Study Scenario Workshop, Marathon,
Florida.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1998). The Measurement of "Rootedness" and the Prediction of
Attachment to Hometowns in College Students. The Journal of
Environmental Psychology, 18, 409-417.
McAndrew,
F.T., Turner, S., Fiedeldey, A.C., & Sharma, Y. (1998, July)
Are
Human Environmental Preferences Universal? Evidence from a
Cross-Cultural Study of Preferences for Visual and Non-Visual Features
of Outdoor Environments. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of The
Human Behavior and
Evolution Society, Davis, CA. Click here for the tables.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1995). What is "Environmental Psychology", and what can it offer
to students concerned about environmental issues? Council on
Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 16, 89-92.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1995, April). The Biological roots of Environmental Attitudes.
Guest lecture to the graduate program in environmental studies,
University of Illinois at Springfield.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1995, April). The Psychology of Environmental Planning.
Invited address at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1993). Environmental
Psychology. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.(Also published in
Chinese)
Goodman,
G.H., and McAndrew, F.T.(1993). Domes and Astroturf: A note on the
relationship between the physical environment and the performance of
major league baseball players. Environment
and Behavior, 25, 121-125.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1993). The home advantage in individual sports. Journal of Social
Psychology, 133, 401-403.
McAndrew,
F.T., and Thornton, B.G.(1987, April). Approach and avoidance
tendencies of screeners and nonscreeners. Paper presented at the
meeting of the Eastern
Psychological Association, Arlington, VA.
Harris,
P.B., and McAndrew, F.T.(1986). Territoriality and compliance: The
influence of gender and location on willingness to sign petitions.
Journal of Social
Psychology, 126, 657-662.
O'Connell,
B.J., Harper, R.S., & McAndrew, F.T.(1985). Grip strength as a
function of exposure to red or green visual stimulation. Perceptual and
Motor Skills, 61,1157-1158.
McAndrew,
F.T., and Clark, J.D.(1983, April). Situational preferences of
individuals differing in arousability. Paper presented at the meeting
of the Eastern
Psychological Association, Philadelphia.
McAndrew,
F.T., Ryckman, R.M., Horr, W., & Solomon, R.(1978). The effects
of
invader placement of spatial markers on territorial behavior in a
college population. Journal
of Social Psychology, 104, 149-150.
LINKS:
APA Division 34 Home Page
Careers
in Environmental Psychology
Environmental
Design Research Association (edra)
Environmental
Psychology Home Page
International
Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
Remembering
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)
Project for Public
Spaces (PPS)
Optimal
Environments
