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Dissertations

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

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