The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America

by Joy Knoblauch

Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls "psychological functionalism." Recruited by federal construction and research programs for institutional reform and expansion--which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822945738
• ISBN13: 9780822945734
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.1"