IBF co-host at meeting for The Swedish Research Council-funded Area Group in Environmental Psychology

The Swedish Research Council-funded Area Group in Environmental Psychology held its annual meeting in Gävle on October 6-7, 2003. The group was formed in 1985 by Tommy Gärling, Birgitta Berglund, and Rikard Küller, with the involvement of other notables in Swedish environment and behavior studies such as Staffan Hygge and Gunnar Sorte. The origins of the group, however, date to the activity in architectural psychology that coalesced in Sweden toward the end of the 1960s. Today, the area group consists of senior researchers and PhD students who want to ground their work on environment-behavior topics in current psychological science. The meetings of the area group mainly draw participants from Sweden, but they have commonly also included scholars from other countries inside and outside of Scandinavia. This years meeting was hosted by Staffan Hygge of the Department of Technology and the Built Environment at the University of Gävle in cooperation with Terry Hartig of IBF, who also is currently chair of the Area Group. For additional information on the area group and the program for the just-concluded meeting, write to Terry.Hartig@ibf.uu.se.