The psychological effects of unusual environments reveal different aspects of behaviour from those seen in more customary situations. Such environments provide natural laboratories in which many questions of psychological interest, varying with the specific environment, may be studied. This paper uses isolated polar stations to illustrate this point. In such settings, the usual parameters that control a variety of psychological processes are drastically changed, and confounding variables are stripped away. Consequently, the environment offers unique perspectives on environmental perception and cognition; adaptation to and use of the environment; environmental bonding; social interaction; and coping with environmental challenge.

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异常环境可以告诉我们关于正常人的哪些信息？作为自然心理学实验室的极地站

不寻常环境的心理影响揭示了行为的不同方面，与在更习惯的情况下看到的不同。这样的环境提供了自然实验室，可以在其中研究许多随特定环境而变化的心理学兴趣问题。本文使用孤立的极地站来说明这一点。在这样的环境中，控制各种心理过程的常用参数发生了巨大变化，并去除了混杂变量。因此，环境为环境感知和认知提供了独特的视角；对环境的适应和利用；环境粘合；社交联系; 和应对环境挑战。