Garling, T. & G.W. Evans, 1991, Environment, cognition, and action: the need for integration, Oxford university press, Oxford
- Author : Garling, T. & G.W. Evans
- Year : 1991
- Publisher : Oxford university press
- Publisher's Location : Oxford
- ISBN : 0195062205
- Pages : 368
- Abstract : What we know and understand about our surroundings influences our evaluations of and behaviours in the physical environment. In addition, our reasons for using places, our goals and personal plans. Bias the manner in which we acquire and store knowledge of places. The extent to which places afford the goals and plans we bring to them also affects environmental assessments. How much we like a place is colored by how well it meets certain functional objectives. Yet scholarly analysis of each of these topics have proceeded largely in isolation. The principle objective of this volume is to promote more thinking and analysis about the integration of these, heretofore largely distinct areas of scholarly inquiry – namely environmental cognition, environmental assessment, and decision making and action in real-world situations. Throughout the present volume there is a distinctly cognitive bias, emphasizing the role of cognition as it influences assessments and action rather than studying how action or assessment might impact cognition.
- Comments : KEYWORDS: environmental psychology, environment, cognition, action, integration.