期刊名称:International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN:2163-1948
电子版ISSN:2163-1956
出版年度:2013
卷号:3
期号:4
页码:109-113
DOI:10.5923/j.ijpbs.20130304.04
语种:English
出版社:Scientific & Academic Publishing Co.
摘要:The concept of privacy, personal space, territoriality, and crowding are central to the study of environment and behavior relationships. Each has received increasing attention by social scientists and environmental designers in the past decades for somewhat different reasons. The study of crowding has been spurred on by a burgeoning world population, and some experts are predicting ecological doom as more and more people consume decreasing resources and as pollution of air, water and other natural resources increases. Some social and behavioral scientists believe because of the interpersonal stresses that occur from too much contact with too many people. It is likely that research on the areas of crowding, personal space, privacy and their relationship to the built environment will probably increase in the coming decades.