Research Interests: |
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Barbara Brown is an environmental and social psychologist who studies the processes of walkability, territoriality, privacy regulation, and place attachment across a variety of settings. She uses multiple research methodologies to assess her interests and chooses theoretical topics that can also have applied significance.
As an example, she has investigated how residential burglary targets are chosen by burglars and how the burglary victimization feels to residents. She has also investigated how feelings about crime are related to neighborhood and residential characteristics in both upper and lower income neighborhoods. In addition, she has examined how day to day abilities to regulate privacy and to feel attached to place are related to the moods of senior citizens in both congregate and independent housing facilities. For Envision Utah, she conducted community workshops to assess citizen preferences for future communities. She has engaged in primarily ethnographic research to examine the utility of transitional and dialectic perspectives on disruptions stemming from environmental disasters or more normal transitions, such as getting married and moving into a house. Most recent research involves understanding whether new urbanist designs support greater transit use, walking, community use, and psychological bonds to neighborhoods. All of these studies emphasize the interdependence among human behavior and experience and the social and physical environment.
Dr. Brown serves on editorial boards for the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, the Journal of Environmental Psychology and Environment and Behavior. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's Division of Population and Environmental Psychology.
ENVISION UTAH: Community Options Workshop Results
Individual & Community Desires (Seaside, Jan. 2000 presentation) |
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Publications: |
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Book Chapters
Perkins, D.D., Crim, B., Silberman, P., & Brown,B.B. (2003). Community development as a response to community level adversity: Ecological theory and research and strengths-based policy. In K.I. Maton, C.J. Schellenbach, B.J.Leadbeater, & A. Solarz (Eds.),Investing in Children, Youth, Families, and Communities: Strengths-Based Research and Practice.
Werner, C. M., Brown, B. B., & Altman, I. (2002). Planning and doing transactionally-oriented research: Examples and strategies. In R. B. Bechtel & A. Churchman (Eds.), Handbook of Environmental Psychology (pp. 203-221) New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Brown, B.B., Werner, C.M., & Altman, I. (2000). Territoriality. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychology Association.
Werner, C.M., Altman, I., & Brown, B.B. (2000). Privacy. In A.E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Brown, B.B., Altman, I., & Werner, C.M. (1998). Choicepoints for dialecticians: A dialectical/transactional perspective on close relationships. In B. Montgomery & L. Baxter (Eds.), Dialectical approaches to studying personal relationships pp. 137-154. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Werner, C.M., Brown, B.B., & Altman, I. (1997). The physical environment and cross-cultural psychology. In J.W. Berry, M.H. Segall, & C. Kagitcibasi (Eds.), Handbook of cross-cultural psychology (2nd Edition, Volume 3)(pp. 255-290). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Brown, B.B., Werner, C.M., & Altman, I. (1994). Close relationships in environmental context. In A.L. Weber & J.H. Harvey (Eds.), Perspectives on close relationships (pp. 340-358). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Werner, C.M., Altman, I., & Brown, B.B. (1993). Celebrations in personal relationships: A transactional/dialectic perspective. In S. Duck (Ed.), Understanding Personal Relationships, Vol. 3. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Brown, B.B., & Perkins, D.D. (1992). Disruptions in place attachment. In I. Altman & S. Low (Eds.), Place attachment (pp. 279-304). New York: Plenum.
Brown, B.B., Altman, I. & Werner, C.M. (1992). Close relationships in the physical and social world: dialectic and transactional analyses. Invited commentary for S. Deetz (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 15 (pp. 509-522). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Altman, I., Brown, B.B., Staples, B. A., & Werner, C. W. (1992). A transactional approach to close relationships: courtship, weddings and placemaking. In B. Walsh, K. Craik, & R. Rice (Eds.), Person-environment psychology (pp. 193-241). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Marsh, P. (1990) Lifestyle: Your surroundings and how they affect you. London: Andromeda Oxford. Authored the following chapters, which Marsh edited into sections:
Harris, P.B., Brown, B.B., Werner, C.M. & Altman, I., Home as transactional unity.
Brown, B.B., Harris, P.B., Werner, C.M. & Altman, I. Privacy and territorial regulation in the home.
Brown, B.B., Harris, P.B., Werner, C.M. & Altman, I. The past, present, and future of homes: Challenges and opportunities.
Werner, C.M., Brown, B.B, Harris, P.B., & Altman, I. Homes as expressions of identity.
Werner, C.M., Harris, P.B., Brown B.B., & Altman, I. Disruption in homes.
Brown, B.B. (1987). Territoriality. In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds.), Handbook of environmental psychology (pp.505-531). New York: Wiley.
Altman, I., Vinsel, A., & Brown, B.B. (1981). Dialectic conceptions in social psychology: An application to social penetration and privacy regulation. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, (pp. 107-160) (Vol. 14). New York: Academic Press.
Brown, B.B., & Altman, I. (1981). Territoriality and residential crime: A conceptual framework. In P.J. Brantingham & P.L. Brantingham (Eds.), Environmental criminology (pp. 55-76). Beverly Hills: Sage.
Refereed Journal Articles
Salari, S., Brown, B.B., & Eaton, J. (In press). Territoriality among Participants in senior centers: Implicating environments and center cultures.
Brown, B.B., Perkins, D.D., & Brown, G. (2004). Crime, housing incivilities, and neighborhood revitalization: multilevel relationships across time. Housing Policy Debate, 15, 301-346.
Brown, B.B., Perkins, D.D., & Brown, G. (2004). Incivilities, place attachment and crime: Block and individual effects. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24, 359-371.
Brown, G., Brown, B.B., & Perkins, D.D. (2004). New housing as neighborhood revitalization: Place attachment and confidence among residents. Environment & Behavior, 36, 749-775.
Brown, B., Werner, C.M., & Kim, N. (2003) Personal and contextual supports to change to transit use: Evaluating a natural transit intervention. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy,3, 139-160.
Brown, G., Brown, B.B., & Perkins, D.D. (In press). New housing as neighborhood revitalization: Place attachment and confidence among residents. Environment & Behavior.
Brown, B.B., Perkins, D.D., & Brown, G. (2003). Place attachment in a revitalizing neighborhood: Individual and block levels of analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23, 259-271.
Brown, B.B., & Cropper, V.L. (2001). New Urban and standard suburban subdivisions: Evaluating psychological and social goals. Journal of the American Planning Association, 67, 402-419.
Brown, B.B., Burton, J.R., & Sweaney, A. (1998). Neighbors, households, and front porches: New Urbanist community tool or mere nostalgia? Environment and Behavior,30, 579-600.
Brown, B.B., Wright, H., & Brown, C. (1997). A post-occupancy evaluation of wayfinding in a pediatric hospital: research findings and implications for instruction. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 14, 35-51.
Harris, P.B., & Brown, B.B. (1996). The home and identity display: Interpreting resident territoriality from home exteriors. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16, 187-203.
Harris, P.B., Brown, B.B., & Werner, C.M. (1996). Privacy regulation and place attachment: Predicting attachments to a student family housing facility. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16, 287-301.
Perkins, D.D., Brown, B.B., & Taylor, R.B. (1996). The ecology of empowerment: Predicting participation in community organizations. Journal of Social Issues, 52, 85-110.
Harris, P.B., Werner, C.M., Brown, B.B., & Ingebritsen, D. (1995). Relocation and privacy regulation: A cross-cultural analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 15, 311-320.
Brown, B.B. & Bentley, D.L. (1993). Residential burglars judge risk: The role of territoriality. Journal of Environmental Psychology,13, 51-61.
Brown, B.B. (1992). The ecology of privacy and mood in a shared living group. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 12, 5-20.
Werner, C.M., Altman, I., & Brown, B.B. (1992). A transactional approach to interpersonal relations: physical environments, social contexts, and temporal qualities. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,9, 297-323.
Werner, C.M., Brown, B.B., Altman, I., & Staples, B. (1992). Close relationships in their physical and social contexts: A transactional perspective. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 9, 411-431.
Voelkl, J.E., & Brown, B.B. (1989). Experience sampling method in therapeutic recreation research. Journal of Therapeutic Recreation, 23, 35-46.
Werner, C.M., Peterson-Lewis, S., & Brown, B.B. (1989). Inferences about homeowners' sociability: Impact of Christmas decorations and other cues. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 9, 279-296.
Brown, B.B., & Harris, P.B. (1989). Residential, burglary victimization: Reactions to the invasion of primary territory. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 9, 119-132.
Dingler-Duhon, M. & Brown, B.B. (1987). Self-disclosure as an influence strategy: Effects of Machiavellianism, androgyny, and sex. Sex Roles, 16, 109-123.
Brown, B.B. (1985). Residential territories: cues to burglary vulnerability. Journal of Architectural Planning and Research, 2,231-243.
Brown, B.B., & Werner, C.M. (1985). Social cohesiveness, territoriality, and holiday decorations: The influence of cul-de-sacs. Environment and Behavior, 17, 539-565.
Brown, B.B., & Altman, I. (1983). Territoriality, defensible space,and residential burglary: An environmental analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 3, 203-220.
Werner, C.M., Brown, B.B., & Damron, G. (1981). Territorial marking in a game arcade. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41,1094-1104.
Vinsel, A., Brown, B.B., Altman, I., & Foss, C. (1980). Privacy regulation, territorial displays, and effectiveness of individual functioning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 1104-1115.
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Courses Taught: |
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FCS 3620 Environment & Behavior
FCS 3420 Housing Policy & Issues
FCS 5600/6000 Environments & Human Behavior
FCS 5700 Methods of Environmental Analysis
FCS 6901 Thesis Development Seminar I |
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