Understanding the environment in environmental psychology

Abstract

The present article consists of answers to the following questions, proposed and answered by the author: How do you, as an environmental psychologist or an environment-behavior researcher, define environment? How do you, as an environmental psychologist or an environment-behavior researcher, take the environment into account in your research? What kind of theories do we need so we can analyze people-environment relations more effectively? Do you think the interaction between people and the environment has been sufficiently and adequately explained by environmental psychology? If the answer is no, in what way could this interaction be explained more satisfactorily? Should we be constructing or collecting different types of information or knowledge to create more useful explanatory theories? What do you think is lacking in Environmental Psychology research? What is your disciplinary background? When you worked with other disciplines or professions, what behavior-environment research methodologies did you use? Which were the most useful and why?