Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
dstokols@uci.edu
Department:
Psychological Science
Urban Planning and Public Policy
Specializations:
Environmental Psychology, Social Ecology, Team Science, Sustainability, Public Health
My research focuses on the study of people’s transactions with their social and physical environments—especially how they influence personal and public health. My research, classroom teaching, and graduate mentorship at UCI span the fields of social ecology, environmental psychology, urban planning, epidemiology, and public health. Some of my current work is in the ‘science of team science’ and investigates factors that affect the collaborative success of transdisciplinary research and training programs. Other research focuses on the health and behavioral impacts of environmental stressors like traffic congestion, crowding, and information overload; applications of environmental design research to urban planning; and the environmental psychology of the Internet, especially the ways that qualities of virtual life affect people’s behavior and well-being.
In addition to my research and teaching roles, I served as Director of the Social Ecology Program in 1988-92 and as Founding Dean of the School of Social Ecology at UCI from 1992-98. My faculty appointments in Social Ecology are in the Departments of Psychological Science and Urban Planning and Public Policy. I have a courtesy appointment in the Program in Public Health and am a member of UCI’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science in the College of Health Sciences. I am author of Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World published by Academic Press in 2018. I co-authored Behavior, Health, and Environmental Stress, edited Perspectives on Environment and Behavior, and co-edited the Handbook of Environmental Psychology; Environmental Simulation; and Promoting Human Wellness. Academic honors include the Career Award from the Environmental Design Research Association, UCI’s Lauds & Laurels Faculty Achievement Award, the Newman-Proshansky Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology, the International Network for the Science of Team Science Career Recognition Award, and the School of Social Ecology Founders Award. I served as scientific consultant to the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences as a member of NCI’s SciTS team between 2005-2011; and as a team science evaluation consultant for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) during 2011-2017. I am a co-author of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s report (2015) on Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science.
Web Links of Research Sites
- Team Scholarship at UCI
- UCI Solutions That Scale
- Early foundations of Social Ecology at UCI
- Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World, Academic Press/Elsevier.
- Professors Dele Ogunseitan and Dan Stokols discuss the development of UCI’s Schools of Social Ecology and Public Health
- UCI Team Scholarship Acceleration Lab
- The Idea Tree – A tool for brainstorming ideas in cross-disciplinary teams
- National Academy of Sciences Report – Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science
- National Academy of Sciences Report – Fostering the Culture of Convergence
- National Academy of Sciences Report – Measuring Convergence in Science and Engineering
- National Cancer Institute Team Science Toolkit
- National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
- Social Psychology Network Profile
- Social Ecology Core Degree Programs
- UCI Program in Public Health
- UCI Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
- Books on Amazon
Course Web Links of Interest
- Environmental Psychology Course Winter 2016 (PSYBEH171S/PPD151/PH151)
- Social Ecology Graduate Seminar (SE200)
- Environmental Psychology Spring’12 (PSYBEH171S/PPD151/PH151) via YouTube, also available on iTunes U
- Strategies of Theory Development Seminar (SE261)