PSY435H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Capital, Pneumatics, Natural Disaster
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Last class: really bad things are happening: global warming, global change patterns. You have to have the intuition that the environment changes and it was have very big impacts. One of the themes in env psych is the interdependence of people will impact the environment: helps us understand the gravity of the problem, allows us to derive solutions. Before this discussion, we have to explore that the environment causes/has impact on the person: through different scales, through individual level (classic psychology micro environment affects our individual psychology) Idea that environmental processes at really big levels scales affect the person at really big levels of scales. If you think about individual scales, you think of person > tribe > clan/community > cities > states > culture. If you get to the very top level of scale (e. g. culture) at the macro level of stage, then you have a really fascinating story that involves humanity.
