Daniel Stokols
Biographic Data
| ID | 205297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Stokols |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokols |
| SIGNATURE | STOKOLS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3008-3009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 425 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Social Ecological Systems in Flux
A world in flux confronts the present generation, raising fears of systems gone awry. Whether it is the prospect of runaway climate change or the dangers of unbridled artificial intelligence, these dilemmas suggest that scientific and technological remedies have not been matched by progress in harnessing social and political capacities for collective action. Part of this impasse stems from a gap between the multidimensional nature of contemporary…
Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design
Tomlinson, B., B. Nardi, D. Stokols, A. Raturi, and A. W. Torrance. 2022. Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas. Ecology and Society 27(2):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13324-270234
The Changing Morphology of Indoor Ecosystems in the Twenty-first Century Driven by Technological, Climatic, and Sociodemographic Forces
The majority of humans reside in urban regions and spend most of their time in indoor environments such as residential, educational, occupational, transportation, and health-care facilities. Interior settings affect occupants' health and behavior through their design, and chemical, microbial, and social features. The initial portion of this paper describes ecological psychologists' conceptions of indoor environments as self-contained and distinct…
Analytics for local knowledge
In privileging expert risk assessments, we may be failing to recognize the authenticity of a community’s actual experience of risk. We should remind ourselves that expert measures are always only partial, often surrogate, estimates of such experience and, at times, may fail to capture the actual nature of risk. There is a need for modes of analysis that allow better description of risk as experienced by community. We develop and test the methods …
Use of information and communication technology among street drifters in Los Angeles
We report a qualitative study of ICT (information and communication technology) use among a group of homeless people on Skid Row, Los Angeles. Participants in our ethnographic study frequently used mobile phones and computers, but not for the purposes documented in other studies such as managing friendships, enlisting family support, finding housing, and seeking employment. They were instead seeking respite to escape their stressful daily lives. …
Ecology and Health
Social ecology, sustainability, and economics
What mode of analysis might be employed, that captures the confluent action of material and social systems acting together? The framework of Social Ecology, which first emerged as a rejoinder to the Chicago School of Human Ecology of the early 1900s, evolved over subsequent decades as an attempt at such integration. We revisit social ecology's historical origins and foundational assumptions. We propose that the social ecological framework can off…
Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems
Stokols, D., R. Perez Lejano, and J. Hipp. 2013. Enhancing the resilience of human–environment systems: a social–ecological perspective. Ecology and Society 18(1): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05301-180107
A typology of people–environment relationships in the Digital Age
Psychological and Health Outcomes of Perceived Information Overload
The rapid growth and transmission of information in the digital age poses new challenges for individuals coping with the onslaught of communications from multiple sources. This research (a) conceptualizes and measures perceived information overload from cyber-based and place-based sources, (b) tests the reliability and validity of a newly developed Perceived Information Overload Scale, and (c) tests hypotheses concerning the psychological and hea…
Using Norm–Based Appeals to Increase Response Rates in Evaluation Research
A field experiment was conducted to test the effectiveness of norm-based persuasive messages for increasing response rates in online survey research. Participants in an interdisciplinary conference were asked to complete two successive postconference surveys and randomly assigned to one of two groups at each time point. The experimental group received a message asking them to complete an online survey that highlighted a descriptive social norm in…
The Ecology of Team Science
The Science of Team Science
Toward a Science of Transdisciplinary Action Research
This paper offers a conceptual framework for establishing a science of transdisciplinary action research. Lewin's (1951) concept of action research highlights the scientific and societal value of translating psychological research into community problem-solving strategies. Implicit in Lewin's formulation is the importance of achieving effective collaboration among behavioral researchers, community members and policy makers. The present analysis b…
Gauging the Transdisciplinary Qualities and Outcomes of Doctoral Training Programs
A key assumption underlying recent investments toward establishing transdisciplinary research centers and training programs is that cross-disciplinary research and training provide a stronger basis for achieving scientific and societal advances than unidisciplinary programs. It is necessary to develop reproducibleand reliable criteria for identifying the distinctive qualities of cross-disciplinary research and training programs, especially in the…
Physicians' Attitudes and Practices Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This article offers a review of the research literature on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and presents the findings from an exploratory survey of the beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of conventionally trained physicians toward CAM. Earlier studies of CAM focused primarily on patients' attitudes and behaviors rather than those of physicians. Physicians play a crucial role in moderating patients' beliefs about and use of …
Evaluating transdisciplinary science
The past two decades have seen a growing interest and investment in transdisciplinary research teams and centers. The Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURCs) exemplify large-scale scientific collaborations undertaken for the explicit purpose of promoting novel conceptual and methodological integrations bridging two or more fields. Until recently, few efforts have been made to evaluate the collaborative processes, and the scientifi…
Theoretical approaches to the promotion of physical activity
The Social Ecology of Health Promotion
The editor and associate editors of this special issue on the social ecological applications of health promotion recognize the successful early growth and progress of the health promotion field but also identify some of the shortcomings that may be improved by a social ecological approach. They also discuss each of the articles that follow in the context of the whole issue.
Translating Social Ecological Theory into Guidelines for Community Health Promotion
Health promotion programs often lack a clearly specified theoretical foundation or are based on narrowly conceived conceptual models. For example, lifestyle modification programs typically emphasize individually focused behavior change strategies, while neglecting the environmental underpinnings of health and illness. This article compares three distinct, yet complementary, theoretical perspectives on health promotion: behavioral change, environm…
Bridging the theoretical and applied facets of environmental psychology
produced environments more suited to human behavior, some of which were later evaluated by POEs.These include a treatment center, public housing, offices, parks, neighborhoods, and city centers.Missed by this book is the most famous POE of all, one done by Trites, Galbraith, Sturdavant, and Leckwart (1970) in which the radial design of a hospital was compared to Conventional single-and double-loaded corridors.This study demonstrated the superiori…
The paradox of environmental psychology
Scientific and applied contributions of environmental psychology are examined in relation to 6 trends that have occurred in this field over the past 3 decades: (a) development of novel constructs and methods for analyzing the links between environment and behavior; (b) increased emphases on cross-paradigm research, (c) transactional models of environment and behavior, and (d) group-environment relationships; (e) expanded application of environmen…
Establishing and maintaining healthy environments
Earlier research on health promotion has emphasized behavior change strategies rather than environmentally focused interventions. The advantages of integrating lifestyle modification, injury control, and environmental enhancement strategies of health promotion are substantial. The author offers a social ecological analysis of health promotive environments, emphasizing the transactions between individual or collective behavior and the health resou…
The paradox of environmental psychology
Physiological, motivational, and cognitive effects of aircraft noise on children
Studied the effects of aircraft noise on 3rd- and 4th-grade students as evidence for the effects of community noise on behavior and as an example of a study that examines the generality of laboratory effects in a naturalistic setting. The impact of noise on attentional strategies, feelings of personal control, and physiological processes related to health was measured. Results are consistent with laboratory work on physiological response to noise…
Establishing and maintaining healthy environments
Earlier research on health promotion has emphasized behavior change strategies rather than environmentally focused interventions. The advantages of integrating lifestyle modification, injury control, and environmental enhancement strategies of health promotion are substantial. The author offers a social ecological analysis of health promotive environments, emphasizing the transactions between individual or collective behavior and the health resou…
The Psychological Context of Residential Mobility and Weil‐Being
This article examines earlier research on residential mobility and health, and offers a theoretical framework that addresses certain issues neglected in that research. In general, previous analyses have characterized relocation as an acute and short‐term life event that imposes considerable strains on the individual at the time of moving. This perspective minimizes the dynamic quality of mobility and ignores the longer‐term health consequences of…
Toward a Science of Transdisciplinary Action Research
This paper offers a conceptual framework for establishing a science of transdisciplinary action research. Lewin's (1951) concept of action research highlights the scientific and societal value of translating psychological research into community problem-solving strategies. Implicit in Lewin's formulation is the importance of achieving effective collaboration among behavioral researchers, community members and policy makers. The present analysis b…
Instrumental and spiritual views of people-environment relations
Feng shui is a philosophy of setting and placing buildings and elements in an environment. It aims to realize physical environments that encourage well-being through the utilization of flowing energy Environmental psychology is a scientific discipline that studies how to design environments that can meet the needs of their occupants and facilitate their activities in order to promote their well-being. Although feng shui is very popular and is use…
Residential Mobility as a Social Issue and Research Topic
Traditionally, the high rate of mobility in America has been linked to such negative consequences as disintegrating communities and alienation among the populace. Recent perspectives on mobility present a more complex image of the factors underlying a population “on the move” and a more benign view of the effects of mobility. In this article we provide a backdrop for these more recent perspectives by presenting an historical overview of American …
Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems
Stokols, D., R. Perez Lejano, and J. Hipp. 2013. Enhancing the resilience of human–environment systems: a social–ecological perspective. Ecology and Society 18(1): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05301-180107
Objective and subjective dimensions of travel impedance as determinants of commuting stress
The stressful characteristics of commuting constraints are conceptualized in terms of both physical and perceptual conditions of travel impedance. This study develops and operationalizes the concept of subjective impedance, as a complement to our previously developed concept of impedance as a physically defined condition of commuting stress. The stress impacts of high-impedance commuting were examined in a study of 79 employees of two companies i…
Transportation, Stress, and Community Psychology
Conditions of transportation were investigated as sources of psychological stress as they affect the physiology, task performance, and mood of commuters. Participants in the study were 100 employees of industrial firms. Traffic congestion was construed as a behavioral constraint in terms of the concept of impedance which is defined by the parameters of distance and time. It was expected that the effects of impedance would be mediated by personali…
Gauging the Transdisciplinary Qualities and Outcomes of Doctoral Training Programs
A key assumption underlying recent investments toward establishing transdisciplinary research centers and training programs is that cross-disciplinary research and training provide a stronger basis for achieving scientific and societal advances than unidisciplinary programs. It is necessary to develop reproducibleand reliable criteria for identifying the distinctive qualities of cross-disciplinary research and training programs, especially in the…
A typology of people–environment relationships in the Digital Age
Reactions to victims under conditions of situational detachment
Discusses M. Lerner and C. Simmons's (see record) suggestion that people tend to derogate innocent victims. A crucial assumption underlying Lerner's approach is that Os, unable to ascribe some misdeed to a victim, will attempt to convince themselves that the victim deserved his suffering by attributing personal unworthiness to him. In an experiment with 128 female undergraduates, the O's situational removal from the victim's misfortune was held c…
The research psychologist as social change agent
Social ecology, sustainability, and economics
What mode of analysis might be employed, that captures the confluent action of material and social systems acting together? The framework of Social Ecology, which first emerged as a rejoinder to the Chicago School of Human Ecology of the early 1900s, evolved over subsequent decades as an attempt at such integration. We revisit social ecology's historical origins and foundational assumptions. We propose that the social ecological framework can off…
Perception of residential crowding, classroom experiences, and student health
Analytics for local knowledge
In privileging expert risk assessments, we may be failing to recognize the authenticity of a community’s actual experience of risk. We should remind ourselves that expert measures are always only partial, often surrogate, estimates of such experience and, at times, may fail to capture the actual nature of risk. There is a need for modes of analysis that allow better description of risk as experienced by community. We develop and test the methods …
Using Norm–Based Appeals to Increase Response Rates in Evaluation Research
A field experiment was conducted to test the effectiveness of norm-based persuasive messages for increasing response rates in online survey research. Participants in an interdisciplinary conference were asked to complete two successive postconference surveys and randomly assigned to one of two groups at each time point. The experimental group received a message asking them to complete an online survey that highlighted a descriptive social norm in…
Aircraft noise and children
Assessed the impact of noise on attentional strategies, learned helplessness, performance on cognitive tasks, and blood pressure. Third and 4th graders were tested on the same measures twice, with a 1-yr interval between sessions. Longitudinal data were used to determine whether Ss adapted to aircraft noise over the 1-yr period and to assess the effectiveness of noise abatement interventions introduced in a number of noise-impacted classrooms. Ad…
A Social-Psychological Model of Human Crowding Phenomena
Previous research on crowding has generally lacked a theoretical perspective. Moreover, there has been a tendency to view crowding in terms of spatial considerations alone and a failure to distinguish between the physical condition (density) and the psychological experience (crowding). In the present discussion, a heuristic model of human crowding phenomena is proposed which permits an integration of various theoretical perspectives and the deriv…
On the distinction between density and crowding
Identifies a distinction between the physical condition, density, defined purely in terms of spatial parameters, and the experience of crowding, a motivational state aroused through the interaction of spatial, social, and personal factors, and directed toward the alleviation of perceived spatial restriction. Future studies pertaining to augmentation of space, subjective reports of restriction, observational indexes of tension, and physiological i…
Reactions to victims under conditions of situational detachment
Discusses M. Lerner and C. Simmons's (see record) suggestion that people tend to derogate innocent victims. A crucial assumption underlying Lerner's approach is that Os, unable to ascribe some misdeed to a victim, will attempt to convince themselves that the victim deserved his suffering by attributing personal unworthiness to him. In an experiment with 128 female undergraduates, the O's situational removal from the victim's misfortune was held c…
Partitioning and Perceived Crowding in a Public Space
Perspectives on Environment and Behavior
Perception of residential crowding, classroom experiences, and student health
The Human Context
Transportation, Stress, and Community Psychology
Conditions of transportation were investigated as sources of psychological stress as they affect the physiology, task performance, and mood of commuters. Participants in the study were 100 employees of industrial firms. Traffic congestion was construed as a behavioral constraint in terms of the concept of impedance which is defined by the parameters of distance and time. It was expected that the effects of impedance would be mediated by personali…
Physiological, motivational, and cognitive effects of aircraft noise on children
Studied the effects of aircraft noise on 3rd- and 4th-grade students as evidence for the effects of community noise on behavior and as an example of a study that examines the generality of laboratory effects in a naturalistic setting. The impact of noise on attentional strategies, feelings of personal control, and physiological processes related to health was measured. Results are consistent with laboratory work on physiological response to noise…
Aircraft noise and children
Assessed the impact of noise on attentional strategies, learned helplessness, performance on cognitive tasks, and blood pressure. Third and 4th graders were tested on the same measures twice, with a 1-yr interval between sessions. Longitudinal data were used to determine whether Ss adapted to aircraft noise over the 1-yr period and to assess the effectiveness of noise abatement interventions introduced in a number of noise-impacted classrooms. Ad…
The Psychological Context of Residential Mobility and Weil‐Being
This article examines earlier research on residential mobility and health, and offers a theoretical framework that addresses certain issues neglected in that research. In general, previous analyses have characterized relocation as an acute and short‐term life event that imposes considerable strains on the individual at the time of moving. This perspective minimizes the dynamic quality of mobility and ignores the longer‐term health consequences of…
Residential Mobility as a Social Issue and Research Topic
Traditionally, the high rate of mobility in America has been linked to such negative consequences as disintegrating communities and alienation among the populace. Recent perspectives on mobility present a more complex image of the factors underlying a population “on the move” and a more benign view of the effects of mobility. In this article we provide a backdrop for these more recent perspectives by presenting an historical overview of American …
The research psychologist as social change agent
Environmental Influences on Mental Health
Objective and subjective dimensions of travel impedance as determinants of commuting stress
The stressful characteristics of commuting constraints are conceptualized in terms of both physical and perceptual conditions of travel impedance. This study develops and operationalizes the concept of subjective impedance, as a complement to our previously developed concept of impedance as a physically defined condition of commuting stress. The stress impacts of high-impedance commuting were examined in a study of 79 employees of two companies i…
Instrumental and spiritual views of people-environment relations
Feng shui is a philosophy of setting and placing buildings and elements in an environment. It aims to realize physical environments that encourage well-being through the utilization of flowing energy Environmental psychology is a scientific discipline that studies how to design environments that can meet the needs of their occupants and facilitate their activities in order to promote their well-being. Although feng shui is very popular and is use…
Establishing and maintaining healthy environments
Earlier research on health promotion has emphasized behavior change strategies rather than environmentally focused interventions. The advantages of integrating lifestyle modification, injury control, and environmental enhancement strategies of health promotion are substantial. The author offers a social ecological analysis of health promotive environments, emphasizing the transactions between individual or collective behavior and the health resou…
The paradox of environmental psychology
Scientific and applied contributions of environmental psychology are examined in relation to 6 trends that have occurred in this field over the past 3 decades: (a) development of novel constructs and methods for analyzing the links between environment and behavior; (b) increased emphases on cross-paradigm research, (c) transactional models of environment and behavior, and (d) group-environment relationships; (e) expanded application of environmen…
The Social Ecology of Health Promotion
The editor and associate editors of this special issue on the social ecological applications of health promotion recognize the successful early growth and progress of the health promotion field but also identify some of the shortcomings that may be improved by a social ecological approach. They also discuss each of the articles that follow in the context of the whole issue.
Translating Social Ecological Theory into Guidelines for Community Health Promotion
Health promotion programs often lack a clearly specified theoretical foundation or are based on narrowly conceived conceptual models. For example, lifestyle modification programs typically emphasize individually focused behavior change strategies, while neglecting the environmental underpinnings of health and illness. This article compares three distinct, yet complementary, theoretical perspectives on health promotion: behavioral change, environm…
Bridging the theoretical and applied facets of environmental psychology
produced environments more suited to human behavior, some of which were later evaluated by POEs.These include a treatment center, public housing, offices, parks, neighborhoods, and city centers.Missed by this book is the most famous POE of all, one done by Trites, Galbraith, Sturdavant, and Leckwart (1970) in which the radial design of a hospital was compared to Conventional single-and double-loaded corridors.This study demonstrated the superiori…
Theoretical approaches to the promotion of physical activity
Evaluating transdisciplinary science
The past two decades have seen a growing interest and investment in transdisciplinary research teams and centers. The Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURCs) exemplify large-scale scientific collaborations undertaken for the explicit purpose of promoting novel conceptual and methodological integrations bridging two or more fields. Until recently, few efforts have been made to evaluate the collaborative processes, and the scientifi…
Physicians' Attitudes and Practices Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This article offers a review of the research literature on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and presents the findings from an exploratory survey of the beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of conventionally trained physicians toward CAM. Earlier studies of CAM focused primarily on patients' attitudes and behaviors rather than those of physicians. Physicians play a crucial role in moderating patients' beliefs about and use of …
Gauging the Transdisciplinary Qualities and Outcomes of Doctoral Training Programs
A key assumption underlying recent investments toward establishing transdisciplinary research centers and training programs is that cross-disciplinary research and training provide a stronger basis for achieving scientific and societal advances than unidisciplinary programs. It is necessary to develop reproducibleand reliable criteria for identifying the distinctive qualities of cross-disciplinary research and training programs, especially in the…
Psychology (32 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Geography (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social science (9 works) · Applied Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works)