Военная история / The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America

Название: The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America
Автор: Joy Knoblauch
Издательство: University of Pittsburgh Press
Год: 2020
Страниц: 265
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 38 MB

Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls “psychological functionalism.” Recruited by federal construction and research programs for institutional reform and expansion—which included hospitals, mental health centers, prisons, and public housing—architects theorized new ways to control behavior and make it more functional by exercising soft power, or power through persuasion, with their designs.