Societies and people have reshaped the world many times over. From building cities and communities that live within them to the smaller changes in a person’s home or place of worship, people influence their space. Benjamin Meagher, a social psychologist at Hope College, argues that the space people shape, also shapes the individual and that social psychology must take an “ecological” view of people in their environment. His work appears in a recently published paper in Personality and Social Psychology Review. Being in a certain location dramatically constrains or facilitates certain…
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