Joe is an environmental psychologist with a specific research interest in how the physical environment affects emotional wellbeing and environmental attitudes, values, identity and behaviours, along with the structure and constituents of wellbeing. Joe also has an interest in humanistic approaches to mental health and how the natural environment may be harnessed as therapeutic medium.
Expertise:
- Wellbeing: eudemonia, meaningfulness
- Environmental influences on emotions
- Environmental attitudes, behaviours, values, identity
- Emotional affiliations: attachments, connectedness, emotional intelligence
Notable media coverage:
The Argus [June 2007]
Interviewed about the effects a greener environment has on human wellbeing
Channel 4 [August, 2007]
The insider: Gardens under threat
Discussing the psychological benefits of urban-green spaces