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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733026.013.0014
AuthorSearch for: 1
EditorSearch for: Clayton, Susan D.
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Construction
FormatText, Book Chapter
Subjectindoor environment; personal space; satisfaction; thermal comfort; environmental stress
Abstract
Work environment research is a vibrant area not only within environmental psychology, but also in a broad range of building sciences concerned with making buildings work for their inhabitants. Understanding how work environments affect comfort, satisfaction, performance, and health comes through the study of such processes as privacy, attention, stress, affect and cognition and builds upon the foundation of previous decades. Conversely, the study of workplace behaviors as they affect the environment is co imperatively new, with pressing societal questions needing answers. Psychologists together with professionals from field such as engineering, physics, architecture and ergonomics have combined roles to play in adding to human knowledge and to design, construct, operate and inhabit spaces that support the work we do today while sustaining Earth for the future.
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Conservation Psychology (1 September 2012): 248–275.
LanguageEnglish
NRC numberNRCC 54513
NRC-IRC-21787
NPARC number21242582
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