ProgramCIP 42.2808

Environmental Psychology

A program that focuses on the study of behavioral interactions between human beings and the environment in individual and group contexts, and ways to improve them. Includes instruction in contextual theory; statistics; physiological, social, and psychological responses to natural and technological hazards and disease; environmental perception and cognition; loneliness and stress; and psychological aspects of environmental design and planning.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).