The papers in this volume, presented at two national seminars, organised by the Department of Psychology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University under its DSA programme, seek to address vital issues pertaining to environment and human development. Focusing on the theory of psychological differentiation in the context of environmental cognition, they emphasise on culture and cognition giving attention to rural and urban settings. They also discuss the impact of socio-cultural settings of stories, relationship between environmental needs and family atmosphere, environmental stress, problem of crowding and fundamental inconsistency between what people think, believe and perceive about environment and what environmental behaviour they exhibit. The deliberations also include human development research in India, ethnotheories of development, relationship between psycho-social environment created at home due to chronic illness of the child and some cognitions of the mother and child's behaviours, the problem of feedback and the development of competence in an educational setting, and the problem of elderly persons.
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