Geographical Psychology: Exploring the Interaction of Environment and Behavior b

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The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. This volume focuses on the intriguing new field of geographical psychology includes research on how ecological, climatic, and psychological factors all contribute or are related to a variety of social indicators, providing a foundation for future work.

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The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. These conditions affect how people from different regions behave and interact with their environments and each other.Geographical Psychology makes the case that understanding of psychological phenomena can be greatly informed by a cross-disciplinary perspective that investigates the spatial organization and geographical representation of such phenomena.The research described in this volume considers how ecological, climatic, and psychological factors contribute or are related to a variety of social indicators, providing a foundation for developing theory and research in this intriguing new field of study.

Author Biography

Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, bounced around the United States, from Louisiana to Texas to New York to Massachusetts, and somehow landed in England, where he is currently a university senior lecturer (associate professor) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College.His research concerns Person X Environment interactions and focuses on the ways in which personality is expressed in everything from people's preferences for music to the places in which they live.Dr. Rentfrow's research on these topics has appeared in several of the most prestigious journals in psychology — including American Psychologist, the Journal of Personality, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Psychological Science. He is committed to educating the public about psychological research and does so by giving lectures and designing online interactive psychology surveys, most recently the BBC's Big Personality Test.

Table of Contents

ContributorsIntroduction Peter J. RentfrowI. Mechanisms Underlying Geographical Variation in States, Traits, and BehaviorsWhere on Earth Do Collectivists Live? Climato–Economic Impacts on Ingroup Love and Outgroup Hate Evert Van de Vliert and Huadong YangRegional Differences in Individualism and Why They Matter Lucian Gideon Conway III, Shannon C. Houck, and Laura Janelle GornickPathogen Prevalence and Geographical Variation in Traits and Behavior Damian R. Murray and Mark SchallerPersonality and the Realization of Migration Desires Markus JokelaPersonality Traits and Spatial Ecology in Nonhuman Animals Julien Cote, Jean Clobert, Tomas Brodin, Sean Fogarty, and Andrew SihII. Geographical Representation of Social Psychological PhenomenaGeographical Differences in Personality Peter J. RentfrowBig Five Personality Differences and Political, Social, and Economic Conservatism: An American State-Level Analysis Stewart J. H. McCannInvestigating the Subjective Well-Being of United States Regions Richard E. Lucas, Felix Cheung, and Nicole M. LawlessThe City Where We Live Matters: The Psychology of Cities Nansook Park and Christopher PetersonFinding Values in Words: Using Natural Language to Detect Regional Variations in Personal Concerns Cindy K. Chung, Peter J. Rentfrow, and James W. PennebakerIII. Person X Environment InteractionsResidential Mobility Affects Self-Concept, Group Support, and Happiness of Individuals and Communities Thomas Talhelm and Shigehiro OishiPeople, Culture, and Place: How Place Predicts Helping Toward Strangers Stephen Reysen and Robert V. LevineThe Psychogeography of Creativity Richard Florida and Charlotta MellanderPlaces, Products, and People "Make Each Other Up": Culture Cycles of Self and Well-Being Alyssa S. Fu, Victoria C. Plaut, Jodi R. Treadway, and Hazel Rose MarkusThe Tyneside Neighborhoods Project: Investigating the Psychological Geography of One British City Daniel Nettle and Agathe ColléonyIndexAbout the Editor

Long Description

The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. These conditions affect how people from different regions behave and interact with their environments and each other. Geographical psychology makes the case that understanding of psychological phenomena can be greatly informed by a cross-disciplinary perspective that investigates the spatial organisation and geographical representation of such phenomena and the mechanisms that are responsible. The research described in this volume indicates that personality, political ideology, well-being, happiness, human virtues, and personal concerns are related to several important geographic social indicators. Additionally, the contributors show how aspects of the social and physical environment influence and interact with such indices as health and morbidity, well-being, crime rates, identity, creativity, and community orientation. Collectively, the chapters in this volume provide a foundation for developing theory and research in this intriguing new field of study.

Details ISBN1433815397 Publisher American Psychological Association Year 2013 ISBN-10 1433815397 ISBN-13 9781433815393 Format Hardcover Subtitle Exploring the Interaction of Environment and Behavior Place of Publication Washington DC Country of Publication United States Short Title GEOGRAPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY Language English Media Book Illustrations Yes Imprint American Psychological Association NZ Release Date 2013-09-16 UK Release Date 2013-09-30 DEWEY 155.9/1 Audience Professional & Vocational Author Peter Rentfrow, PhD Pages 343 Publication Date 2013-09-16 Edited by Peter Rentfrow US Release Date 2013-09-16 AU Release Date 2013-09-29 We've got this

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