• April 25, 2024

If you have ever complained about the decoration of your workplace, you do not enjoy the noise of a market and you even feel that walking through streets full of buildings overwhelms you, your relationship with the ambient it is not synchronized and this can alter your Health .

This relationship of the physical characteristics of a place and human behavior are aspects studied by the environmental psychology . That is, what makes a person feel comfortable or disgusted with the decoration of a place, the size of the spaces or the number of people with whom he lives every day.

Spaces influence your behavior

Teacher Javier Urbina Soria , of the School of Psychology of the UNAM , says that there are models to explain the environmental psychology . One of the most prominent is to assume that we have two ways of relating to the environment: cognitive and behavioral.

The first is how we acquire and we process information about him ambient that surrounds us and the second is how we we behave in this.

Each person interprets the environment in a different way and the way in which it is related to him is determined by two aspects: his personality and the idea that is formed of said environment from space, "says the teacher.

 

All the places where we interact and occupy, for example, where you walk every day, the neighborhood where you live or the places where you meet other people such as the subway, a church or the office influence behavior and arrive to transform your behavior.

In the studies of environmental psychology They participate in an interdisciplinary way such areas as architecture, urbanism, biology, sociology, anthropology and communication.

Master Urbina affirms that the term of environmental psychology It is not well known by the population.

This discipline - which analyzes the interactions between people and their different environments - is useful to study issues such as the characteristics of housing in cities, the effects of the physical environment on patients and medical personnel.

To them is added noise in schools, pro-environmental behaviors, urban stressors, as well as the perception and communication of environmental risks, such as climate change.

Do not forget that light, weather, humidity, vegetation are part of the environment have some impact on your emotions and feelings. Have you noticed how your mood changes depending on where you are?

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