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ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY, VOL 65
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 581-609Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-030413-152156
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social ecology; culture; physical environments; interpersonal environments; economic environments; political environments
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Socioecological psychology investigates humans' cognitive, emotional, and behavioral adaption to physical, interpersonal, economic, and political environments. This article summarizes three types of socioecological psychology research: (a) association studies that link an aspect of social ecology (e. g., population density) with psychology (e. g., prosocial behavior), (b) process studies that clarify why there is an association between social ecology and psychology (e. g., residential mobility -> anxiety -> familiarity seeking), and (c) niche construction studies that illuminate how psychological states give rise to the creation and maintenance of a social ecology (e. g., familiarity seeking -> dominance of national chain stores). Socioecological psychology attempts to bring the objectivist perspective to psychological science, investigating how objective social and physical environments, not just perception and construal of the environments, affect one's thinking, feeling, and behaviors, as well as how people's thinking, feeling, and behaviors give rise to social and built environments.
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