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

Living in an (In)Visible World: The (In)Justice in Lesbians' and Queer Women's Everyday Spaces and Economies in NYC (1983-2008)

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