In the latter part of the 1960s, the ethologically derived idea of territoriality as an explanation for human aggression became widely debated among social scientists. The instinctual basis of human territorial aggression was promoted by so‐called popular ethologists and consequently embraced by lay audiences. The article examines how the emerging field of environmental psychology adopted the notion of human territoriality from ethology and made it into a part of their own research agenda. It shows how environmental psychologists were inspired by the fashion around the claimed relevance of human territoriality for the large‐scale social problems, such as aggression, war and population growth. Despite of the obvious influences and comparisons between animal and human behavior, many environmental psychologists wanted to contest not only the ‘territorial aggression thesis’ but also the relevance of animal studies for the analysis of human behavior.

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争论环境心理学中的“领土侵略论”，约。 1965-1980。


在 20 世纪 60 年代后半叶，从动物行为学中衍生出的领土观念作为对人类攻击性的解释在社会科学家中引起了广泛争论。人类领土侵略的本能基础是由所谓的大众行为学家提倡的，因此受到了普通观众的欢迎。本文探讨了新兴的环境心理学领域如何从行为学中采用人类领土性的概念，并将其纳入自己的研究议程的一部分。它展示了环境心理学家如何受到围绕人类领土性与大规模社会问题（例如侵略、战争和人口增长）的相关性的流行时尚的启发。尽管动物和人类行为之间存在明显的影响和比较，许多环境心理学家不仅想质疑“领土侵略论”，还想质疑动物研究与人类行为分析的相关性。