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Environmental Decision Making Lab
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A lab that explores the relationship between people and the environment using psychological methods.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding environmental attitudes and behavior through psychology.
The Environmental Decision Making Lab studies the interrelationship between people and the environment using psychological methods.
When people take action to improve the environment, what encourages them and what holds them back? The lab investigates this from both psychological and structural factors.
Another research theme is how the natural environment relates to people's physical and mental health and well-being.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Environmental Psychology Lab."
Key terms
- Pro-environmental behavior
- Actions people take to improve the environment, such as mitigating climate change or reducing plastic pollution (pro-environmental behavior)
- Well-being
- A person's good state, including physical and mental health. The natural environment is thought to contribute to it, and the lab studies this relationship (well-being)
- Place attachment
- The attachment people feel toward a particular place. It is one perspective for exploring the relationship between the environment and well-being (place attachment)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the interrelationship between people and the environment across a wide range of environmental issues, using psychological methods. It investigates the factors that shape pro-environmental behavior, and the relationship between the natural environment and physical and mental health.
*Illustrative imagePro-environmental Attitudes and Behavior
The lab examines what influences, and what hinders, people in perceiving the benefits of the environment and taking action to improve it. Topics include climate change mitigation and adaptation, recycling, nature conservation, and reducing plastic pollution.
*Illustrative imageEnvironment and Well-being
The natural environment contributes to people's physical and mental health and well-being, but the relationship varies with environmental conditions, the way people engage with nature, and individual characteristics. The lab explores it from perspectives such as the restorative effects of urban green space, park users' satisfaction, place attachment, and disaster preparedness.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Environmental Decision Making Lab are faculty, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorNaoko Kaida
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Torregrotta Trimarchi urban green space 2025” Alphacentauri2007 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Pro-environmental Attitudes and Behavior: “Garbage and recycling station at the beach” CeruleanPanda / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Environment and Well-being: “Photo of summer in urban park on the square Frederiksplein in Amsterdam city; under the big trees are benches to relax. Photo july 2009 by photographer Fons Heijnsbroek - free download” Fons Heijnsbroek / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental and Energy Policy Lab): “Renewable Energy Advocacy” Esthee2010 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Applied Social Psychology Lab): “Photographer taking a group photograph of smiling students in front of the Tokyo station, Marunouchi, Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Shida Lab): “Crowds On Wynyard Crossing Bridge” Ingolfson / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Environment and Behavior Lab): “Shanghai Urban Planning Museum city model 3” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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