What can abnormal environments tell us about normal people? Polar stations as natural psychology laboratories

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-102

  Suedfeld, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COLD CLIMATE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; COLD CLIMATE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032009704     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jevp.1998.0090     Document Type: Article

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