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Environment-behavior studies need to strengthen theoretical formulations and to clarify methodological assumptions. This is a valid option in general, but a particularly important one when psychological approaches are adopted. Actually, psychology is increasingly a very large umbrella under which dramatically different theoretical assumptions and methodological practices co-exist. And the same is true, perhaps on a smaller scale, for that part of psychology specifically devoted to environment-behavior research, namely environmental psychology. With respect to this, environmental psychology, studying people-environment relations or transactions, aims on one side to establish itself as an applied psychological discipline; and on the other, it aims to understand psychological processes “in the real world” acquiring internal relevance for psychology in general.
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Bonaiuto, M., Bonnes, M. (2000). Social-Psychological Approaches in Environment-Behavior Studies. In: Wapner, S., Demick, J., Yamamoto, T., Minami, H. (eds) Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4701-3_7
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