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Psychology Taking Environmental Psychology to the People Environmental Psychology Environmental psychology is concerned both with psychological effects of the physical environment and with effects of human action on the sociophysical environment. International Association of Applied Psychology Example of studying impact of physical environment on psychological processes Noise in the urban environment Urban...
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