ABSTRACT
All systematic attempts to understand or explain human experience and behavior entail assumptions about the nature and importance of people’s relationships with their environments. Often, these assumptions are hidden, and are not thoughtfully examined (cf. Slife & Williams, 1995). In environmental psychology, researchers and theorists have a special obligation to examine and reflect on their underlying assumptions regarding person–environment transactions, because such events are a core concern of the field (cf. Craik, 1996).
