Section I. Introduction -- 1. Origins and Directions of Environment—Behavioral Research -- Section II. Ecological Psychology -- 2. Behavioral Ecology -- 3. From Church to Laboratory to National Park: A Program of Research on Excess and Insufficient Populations in Behavior Settings -- Section III. Environmental Psychology -- 4. Environmental Psychology: Origins and Development -- 5. Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Uncontrollable Environmental Events -- 6. Beyond the Effects of Crowding: Situational and Individual Differences -- 7. Simulation Techniques in Environmental Psychology -- Section IV. Applications of Behavioral Research to Environmental Design -- 8. Action Research -- 9. From Congruence to Antecedent Conditions: A Search for the Basis of Environmental Improvement -- 10. Participation in the Design Process: A Cognitive Approach -- 11. Preference and Everyday Nature: Method and Application -- 12. Who Needs What When: Design of Pluralistic Learning Environments -- 13. The Relevance of Crowding Experiments to Urban Studies -- Section V. Directions of Research on Environment and Behavior -- 14. Some Problems of Strategy in Environmental Psychology -- 15. Research on Environment and Behavior: A Personal Statement of Strategy -- 16. Methodological Developments in Environment—Behavioral Research -- Author Index.

The inception of this volume can be traced to a series of Environmental Psychology Colloquia presented at the University of California, Irvine, dur­ ing the spring of 1974. These colloquia were held in conjunction with Social Ecology 252, a graduate seminar on Man and the Environment. Although the eight colloquia covered a wide range of topics and exemplified a diversity of research techniques, they seemed to converge on some common theoretical and methodological assumptions about the na­ ture of environment-behavioral research. The apparent continuities among these colloquia suggested the utility of developing a manuscript that would provide a historical overview of research on environment and be­ havior, a representation of its major concerns, and an analysis of its concep­ tual and empirical trends. Thus, expanded versions of the initial presen­ tations were integrated with a supplemental set of invited manuscripts to yield the present volume of original contributions by leading researchers in the areas of ecological and environmental psychology.

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