Daniel Stokols

Daniel Stokols is Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design and Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Stokols received his B.A. degree at the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His recent research has examined factors that influence the success of transdisciplinary research and training programs. Additional areas of Dr. Stokols' research include the design and evaluation of community and worksite health promotion programs, the health and behavioral impacts of environmental stressors such as traffic congestion and overcrowding, and the application of environmental design research to urban planning and facilities design. Professor Stokols is past President of the Division of Population and Environmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Stokols was a recipient of the Annual Educator Award from the International Facility Management Association in 1988, the Annual Career Award of the Environmental Design Research Association in 1991, the UC Irvine Lauds and Laurels Faculty Achievement Award and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research in 2003. Dr. Stokols is currently serving as Scientific Consultant to the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, on Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives.

Stokols was born and raised in Miami, Florida. After attending college at the University of Chicago, Stokols began his doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in social psychology where he also took minors in Sociology, City and Regional Planning, and worked on research projects in the School of Public Health. While at UNC, Stokols became increasingly interested in cross-disciplinary approaches to research and an emerging field called environmental (or ecological) psychology. Stokols' research projects at UNC focused on a variety of urban issues including people’s responses to spatial density and other environmental stressors. His masters research project examined people’s reactions to victims of misfortune and his Ph.D. dissertation was a study of alienation in small groups.

In 1973, after earning his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, Stokols was recruited as an Assistant Professor by the Program in Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Between 1988-1998, Stokols served as Director of the Program in Social Ecology and then as Dean of the new School of Social Ecology once the UC Regents designated the unit officially as a “school” in May 1992. A brief history of Social Ecology’s development at UCI between 1970 to the present is available at:

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/51000/Historical_Overview.html

Stokols returned to full-time teaching and research in the School of Social Ecology at UC Irvine in 1998 and presently teaches courses on social ecology, environmental psychology, community health promotion, and strategies of theory development.

External links

• Dr. Stokols' academic biography at his UC Irvine faculty web site

Stokols' recent publications

Stokols, D., Grzywacz,J.G., McMahan, S., Phillips, K. (2003). Increasing the health promotive capacity of human environments. American Journal of Health Promotion, 18, 4-13.

Stokols, D., Fuqua, J., Gress, J., Harvey, R., Phillips, K., Baezconde-Garbanati, L., Unger, J., Palmer, P., Clark, M., Colby, S., Morgan, G., & Trochim, W. (2003). Evaluating transdisciplinary science. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 5, S-1, S21-S39.

Best, A., Stokols, D., Green, L.W., Leischow, S., Buchholz, K., & Holmes, B. (2003). Health promotion and community partnering: Translating theory into effective strategy. American Journal of Health Promotion. 18, 168-176.

Fuqua, J., Stokols, D., Gress, J., Harvey, R., & Phillips, K. (2004). Transdisciplinary scientific collaboration as a basis for enhancing the science and prevention of substance use and abuse. Substance Use and Misuse, 39, 1457-1514.

Stokols, D. (2003). The ecology of human strengths. In L.G. Aspinwall & U.M. Staudinger (Eds.), A psychology of human strengths: Fundamental questions and future directions for a positive psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 331-343.

Stokols, D., & Montero, M. (2002). Toward an environmental psychology of the internet. In R. Bechtel & A. Churchman (Eds.), Handbook of Environmental Psychology (661-675). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Stokols, D., Clitheroe, C., & Zmuidzinas, M. (2002). Qualities of work environments that promote perceived support for creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 14, 127-137.

King, A. C., Stokols, D., Talen, E., Brassington, G. S., & Killingsworth, R. E. (2002). Theoretical approaches to the promotion of physical activity: Forging a transdisciplinary paradigm. Amer. Journal of Preventive Medicine, 23(2S), 15-25.

Stokols, D., McMahan, S., Clitheroe, C., & Wells, M. (2001). Enhancing corporate compliance with worksite safety and health legislation. Journal of Safety Research, 32, 441-463.

Stokols, D. (2001). Ecology and health. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds). The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. (6: 4030-4035). Oxford, England: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Stokols, D. (2000). Social ecology and behavioral medicine: Implications for training, practice, and policy. Behavioral Medicine, 26, 129-138.

Stokols, D. (2000). Environmental psychology. In A. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology, Volume 3. New York: Oxford University Press.

Stokols, D. (2000). The social ecological paradigm of wellness promotion. In M. Schneider Jamner & D. Stokols (Eds.), Promoting human wellness: New frontiers for research, practice and policy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 21-37.

Jamner, M., & Stokols, D. (Eds.) (2000). Promoting human wellness: New frontiers for research, practice, and policy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Stokols, D. (1999). Human development in the age of the internet: Conceptual and methodological horizons. In S. L. Friedman & T. D. Wachs (Eds.), Measuring environment across the lifespan: Emerging methods and concepts. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 327-356.

Stokols, D. (1998). Environmental design and occupational health. In J. Stellman & C. Brabant (Eds.), ILO Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety, 4th Edition. Section IV, Psychosocial and Organizational Factors (S. L. Sauter & L. Levi, Section Co-Editors). Geneva, Switzerland: International Labor Office, 34.19-34.22.

Stokols, D. (1995). The paradox of environmental psychology. American Psychologist, 50, 821-837.

Stokols, D., Pelletier, K. R., & Fielding, J. E. (1995). Integration of medical care and worksite health promotion. Journal of the American Medical Association, 273, 1136-1142.

Stokols, D. (1992). Establishing and maintaining healthy environments: Toward a social ecology of health promotion. American Psychologist, 47, 6-22.

Stokols, D. (1990). Instrumental and spiritual views of people-environment relations. American Psychologist, 45, 641-46.

Stokols, D. and Altman, I. (Eds.) (1987). Handbook of environmental psychology, Volumes 1 and 2. New York: John Wiley and Sons.