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Architecture and social behavior : psychological studies of social density
- Title
- Architecture and social behavior : psychological studies of social density / Andrew Baum, Stuart Valins.
- Author
- Baum, Andrew.
- Publication
- Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates ; New York : Distributed by the Halsted Press Division of Wiley, 1977.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Valins, Stuart
- Description
- ix, 112 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book describes a program of research concerned with the social and psychological effects of architectural design. In each chapter a different aspect of resident experience and behaviour is described, allowing an organized development of tests of the primary hypotheses. By organizing the book in this manner, it is hoped that the impact of architectural design and social density will be highlighted. The studies reported in this book were conducted at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at Trinity College.
- Series Statement
- Complex human behavior
- Uniform Title
- Complex human behavior
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 107-110.
- Contents
- The environment and behavior. The architectural environment ; Group size and the regulation of social experience ; Density and the quality of life ; Crowding: a syndrome of stress and coping behavior ; Research strategy -- Physical environments and social environments: an architectural manipulation. The dormitory designs ; The social use of space ; Crowding and numbers of people ; Comparability of resident populations ; An experimental test of comparability ; Summary -- Persistent effects of the environment: stress and social interaction in the laboratory. Social stress and the probability of interaction ; Waiting in the laboratory ; Waiting in a dental office ; The effects of cooperative and competitive orientations ; The effects of being ignored ; Summary -- Group development and crowding stress. Group development ; Group mediation of crowding stress ; Group consensus ; Cooperation, competition, and task performance -- Architecture and social experience: a conceptual replication. The dormitory designs at Trinity College ; Social experience in the dormitories ; Waiting in the laboratory ; Helplessness and the probability of interaction -- Summary and implications. Density and crowding ; Toward an architectural awareness.
- ISBN
- 0470993006
- 9780470993002
- LCCN
- 77011133
- OCLC
- ocm03203127
- 3203127
- SCSB-276812
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library