Frugality | Place attatchment | Wellbeing | Emotions | Behavior |
The Environmental Psychology research group of the Universidad de La Laguna we welcome you to our website. Here you can find all the information you need about our interests, team members, publications, and more.
The team PublicationsAbout Us
We have an extensive experience studying the bond that people develop with places, mainly focusing on concepts such as place attachment and place identity. Some of our papers have become a benchmark in that field from a theoretical and methodological perspective. Our research has helped differentiating the concepts of attachment and identity as well as establishing their measurement.
We have been studying how beliefs, norms and self-efficacy are capable of explaining sustainable behavior. We are interested in different visions of the person-environment connection, specifically an interdependence worldview that includes beliefs oriented, at the same time, towards the defense of human and environmental interests, and how those beliefs affect the behavior.
Along these years, we have developed close relationships with multiple groups both nationally and internationally, with which we collaborate actively and are part of who we are.
The most important
Publications
2016 – 2017
Negrín, F., Hernández-Fernaud, E., Hess, S., & Hernández, B. (2017). Discrimination of Urban Spaces with Different Level of Restorativeness Based on the Original and on a Shorter Version of Hartig …
2011 – 2015
Hidalgo, M & Hernández, B. & Moreno-Jiménez, P. (2015). Does neighbourhood attachment mean to care for and to maintain it? IAPS Bulletin, 43(3), 25-27 Casakin, H., Hernández, B., & Ruiz, …
2006 – 2010
Hernández, B., Martín, A. M., Ruiz, C., & Hidalgo, M. C. (2010). The role of place identity and place attachment in breaking environmental protection laws. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30(3), …
2001 – 2005
Hernández, B., & Hidalgo, M. C. (2005). Effects of urban vegetation on psychological restorativeness. Psychological Reports, 96, 1025-1028. Ruiz, C., Hernández, B., & Hernández-Fernaud, E. (2004). Estrategias de afrontamiento …