Psychology 2990A/B Chapter 9: Chapter 9 Psychology and Environment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Mahi Singh

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Introduction: alberta"s tar sands is considered one of the worlds top environmental hot zones by un o largest energy project in the world o mining bitumen requires natural gas (which accounts for 60% of the projects operating expenses o each barrel of bitumen produced requires 3 barrels of fresh water o 90% of the water ends up at tailing ponds (worlds largest collections of toxic waste) Study: university college of cape breton interviewed students at high school near tar ponds o the students worried about health of themselves and their families than students 40km away did (students who worried the most showed highest level of depression) o evenstudents40kmawaymayhavefelteffected. Beauty of social psych is that by nature it addresses both basic and applied questions about human behaviour o e. g. research on stereotyping/prejudice investigate basic theoretical questions about the ways people form impressions of each other, as well as applied questions about how it can be reduced.