THE FINAL STEP OF GRADUATE STUDY
The dissertation is an original, research-based scholarly work that can be theoretical, empirical-theoretical, or applied theoretical in nature. A good dissertation experience depends on a strong working advisor-advisee relationship. Once the dissertation is complete, it is defended in an open, oral, public forum. For additional information, please see the Program Handbook.
The following is a list of dissertations completed in the Environmental Psychology program:
- Neighborhood Participation in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn (completed in association with the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy)
- The Meaning of Objects: A Contextural Analysis of Experiences of Chinese Students in their Home and Host Country
- Makes Me Mad. The Fed Up Honeys investigate stereotypes, gentrification, and the disinvestment of the Lower East Side
- Parents’ Conceptions of Urban Dangers and Children’s Access to their Neighborhoods
- Environmental Memory in Contemporary American Poetry (now published by SUNY Press, “In The First Country of Places”)
- The Impact of the Play Environment on the Social Integration of Mentally Retarded and Non-Disabled Children
- The Experience of Public Art in Urban Settings
- The Use and Management of Toys and Loose Parts on a Staffed Playground: Values, Problems and Possibilities
- Becoming “Urban” or Staying “Rural”: The Experiences of Diverse Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Ankara, Turkey
- Generic Conceptions of Types of Settlements: The Public Views the City-Suburb Distinctions
- Community by Design: A Comparative Study of Moderate-Income Housing Developments
- Agoraphobia in Women and Environmental Meaning
- Children in Institutional Settings: Privacy, Social Interaction, and Self-Esteem
- Quality of Life
- Working at Home: A Study of Gender and Sociophysical Space
- Psychological Concepts of Home Among Urban Middle-Class Families
- Villa Borinquen: A Case Study of the Interaction of Architectural and Psychosocial Factors in Low Income Housing
- Wandering Behavior of Older People: A Study of Hyperactivity, Disorientation and the Spatial Environment
- Effects of Emotional Imagery on Cardiovascular and Plasma Catecholamine Responses in Type A and Type B Individuals
- Working at Home and Being at Home: The Interaction of Microcomputers and the Social Life of Households
- Parental Ideologies in the Home Safety Management of One- to Four-Year-Old Children
- The Art in the Environment Experience: Reactions to Public Murals in England
- Intrinsic Experience and Place
- Effect of Housing Abandonment, Resettlement and Displacement on the Evolution of Voluntary Community Organizations in Park Slope Brooklyn
- Man-Nature Value Orientations
- An Intergenerational Approach to Community Education and Action: A Case Study
- The Dissolution of Boundaries Between Human and Environment: An Examination of Environmental Concomitants
- Neighborhood and Health Centers: Evaluation of an Environment for Community Health Care
- Imagine Me, Falling In Love…And With A Machine! The Automated Office and Social Control
- Patterns of Social Relationships Among Tenants in Age-Segregated Public Housing
- The Effects of Sex and Race on Personal Space
- The Experience of Home Birth: Interpretation and Critique
- The Meaning and Effects of Highrise Living for the Middle-Income Family: A Study of Three Highrise Sites in New York City
- Environmental Values and Housing Preferences: A Comparison of Architects and Non-Architects
- Relationships to Non-Residential Places: Towards a Reconceptualization of Relationships to Place
- The Social and Cognitive Effects of Crowding on Young Children in Two Settings: The Home and Day-Care Center
- Effects of Tenant Population Size on Low-Income Public Housing Residents
- Place of Nuclear Threat in Young Peoples Everyday Concerns and Expectations
- Fantastic Architecture Revisited: Towards a Unified Approach to the “Fantastic” in the Built Environment
- The Effects of Information on Patients’ Perception of their Hospital Admission: An Environmental Intervention
- Neighborhood Change in New York City: A Case Study of Park Slope, 1880-1980
- The Effects of the Progressive Care Unit Environment
- Special Objects: The Function and Significance in Physical Objects in People’s Lives
- Researching Across Invisible Borders: Young Punk Women Speak About Their Environmental Experiences While Living on Their Own
- An Interview Study of the Experiences of Urban Stress by Newcomers and Native City Dwellers
- Towards a Model of Urban Planning In a Bureaucratic Context
- School Settings: Social and Spatial Organization with Regard to Sex Differences
- A Psycho-Social Impact Analysis of Environmental Change in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
- The Nature of Educational Environment in Adult Learner’s Educational Development
- Nursing and Computers. Caring in the Context of Information Technology
- Modeling Occupant Behavior in Residential Building Fires
- The Role of Creative Expression and Interdependency in Child Development
- The Social Consequences of Self-Management in a Mutual Housing Association for Older People
- Residential Relocation and Adaptation to Place: An Exploration of Place Identity
- Mobile Homes: A Psychological Case Study of Innovations in Housing
- A Psychological Examination of Learning Environments for Handicapped Children
- Energy Conservation Attitudes, Intentions, and Behaviors of Homeowners in Staten Island, New York
- Sharing and Privacy in Shared Housing for the Elderly
- The Choice of Maternity Service by Pregnant Women: An Exploratory Analysis
- The Adequacy of Simulations for Representing Interior Environments
- A Study of an Urban Community and its Children, 1890 – 1991
- Leisure Education: An Application of Learning Style Theory to Zoo Visitor
- The Ties that Bind: The Roles of Family, Community, and School in the Educational Experiences of Homeless Children
- Room for Improvement: Housing Satisfaction of Formerly Homeless Families
- Ownership and Equity: Perceptions of Homeownership by Low Income Owners of Limited Equity Cooperative Housing
- Building a World: Political Nature of Public Art
- Refugees from Racism: Adolescent Community Settings as an Early Motivational Influence for High Acheiving Black Men: A Theoretical Perspective
- The Quality of Urban Life for African-American Low Income Working Single Women with Young Children Living in two New York City Neighborhoods
- The Winter Life of Small Urban Spaces in New York City
- Environmental Psychology in a Contemporary Hospital: Total Institutions Revisited
- Urban Residents’ Perceptions of Neighborhood Change
- The Psychological Link between the Perception of Neighborhood Change and Action
- The Social Construction of Global Climate Change
- Children’s Thoughts and Feelings Regarding their Treatment Environment: Stresspoints and Coping in a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinic
- Exile and Identity