TY - BOOK AU - Insel, Paul M. AU - Lindgren, Henry Clay TI - Too close for comfort: the psychology of crowding SN - 139251642 AV - HM 291 .I57 1978 PY - 1978/// CY - Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey PB - Prentice-Hall International Inc. KW - CROWDING STRESS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Crowding: Difficult to Avoid: hard to Define -- Chapter 3. One Man's Party is Another's Noisy Crowd -- Chapter 4. The Social Cost of Crowded Homes -- Chapter 5. Urban Stress -- Chapter 6. Lines or Queues: Where do they Lead? -- Chapter 7. Crowding and Aggression -- Chapter 8. Crowding and Health -- Chapter 9. Privacy N2 - Do people behave differently when they are crowded? Does living under crowded conditions affect attitudes, personality, and the ability to think and solve problems? Is crowdedness a threat to mental and physical health? If the answer to these questions is "Yes," are we humans sufficiently adaptive so that living in a crowded society will eventually make little difference in our lives? After carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that crowding has serious consequences and is a contributing factor to the deteriorating quality of life ER -