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The built environment and mental healthGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis and Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Urban Health 80:536-55. 2003....
The role of chaos in poverty and children's socioemotional adjustmentGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Psychol Sci 16:560-5. 2005....- Child development and the physical environmentGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 57:423-51. 2006..Socioemotional, cognitive, motivation, and psychophysiological outcomes in children and youths are reviewed. Necessary methodological and conceptual advances are introduced as well... - Childhood poverty and health: cumulative risk exposure and stress dysregulationGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Psychol Sci 18:953-7. 2007..e., during adolescence) did not affect these physiological stress outcomes. The effects of childhood poverty on stress dysregulation are largely explained by cumulative risk exposure accompanying childhood poverty... 
Childhood poverty and young adults' allostatic load: the mediating role of childhood cumulative risk exposureGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca 14853, USA
Psychol Sci 23:979-83. 2012..This, in turn, leads to elevated allostatic load. Multiple psychological, biological, and neurological pathways likely account for the social patterning of psychological and physical disease...- Family income and childhood obesity in eight European cities: the mediating roles of neighborhood characteristics and physical activityGary W Evans
Departments of Design and Environmental Analysis and of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Soc Sci Med 75:477-81. 2012..Open green space was assessed by trained observers' ratings of the area surrounding the child's home. Limitations of the study and implications for better understanding of the ecological context of obesity are discussed... - Rail commuting duration and passenger stressGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Health Psychol 25:408-12. 2006..These effects were not moderated by gender. Commuting stress is an important and largely overlooked aspect of environmental health... - Cumulative risk, maternal responsiveness, and allostatic load among young adolescentsGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Dev Psychol 43:341-51. 2007..Higher risk was associated with muted reactivity and slower, less efficient recovery in blood pressure. These dynamic cardiovascular effects occurred irrespective of maternal responsiveness... - Income health inequalities among older persons: the mediating role of multiple risk exposuresGary W Evans
Departments of Environmental Analysis and Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
J Aging Health 20:107-25. 2008..We examine whether the pervasive income gradient in health among senior citizens can be explained in part by multiple risk exposure... - Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memoryGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:6545-9. 2009..Chronic stress is measured by allostatic load, a biological marker of cumulative wear and tear on the body that is caused by the mobilization of multiple physiological systems in response to chronic environmental demands... - Multiple risk exposure as a potential explanatory mechanism for the socioeconomic status-health gradientGary W Evans
3M2061 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1186:174-89. 2010..Thus, the convergence of exposure to multiple physical and psychosocial risk factors accompanying disadvantage may account for a portion of SES gradients in health in both childhood and adulthood... - Loosening the link between childhood poverty and adolescent smoking and obesity: the protective effects of social capitalGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Psychol Sci 22:3-7. 2011..At-risk youth in communities with a relatively rich array of social capital did not smoke more or have greater excess body fat compared with their more affluent counterparts... - Childhood cumulative risk and obesity: the mediating role of self-regulatory abilityGary W Evans
Design and Environmental Analysis and Human Development, Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Pediatrics 129:e68-73. 2012..We tested whether early childhood risk exposures are related to weight gain in adolescence and evaluate an underlying mechanism, self-regulatory behavior, for the risk-obesity link... - Environmental justice, cumulative environmental risk, and health among low- and middle-income children in upstate New YorkGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1942-4. 2004..We documented inequitable, cumulative environmental risk exposure and health between predominantly White low-income and middle-income children residing in rural areas in upstate New York... - The environment of childhood povertyGary W Evans
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Am Psychol 59:77-92. 2004..Predominantly low-income schools and day care are inferior. The accumulation of multiple environmental risks rather than singular risk exposure may be an especially pathogenic aspect of childhood poverty... - Housing quality and mental healthG W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 68:526-30. 2000..Possible underlying psychosocial processes for the housing quality-psychological distress link are discussed... - Stress and open-office noiseG W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
J Appl Psychol 85:779-83. 2000..Potential health consequences of long-term exposure to low-intensity office noise are discussed... - Community noise exposure and stress in childrenG W Evans
Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Developments, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 109:1023-7. 2001..The results are discussed in the context of prior airport noise and nonauditory health studies. More behavioral and health research is needed on children with typical, day-to-day noise exposure... - Socioeconomic status and health: the potential role of environmental risk exposureGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 23:303-31. 2002..We conclude with a discussion of the research and policy implications of environmental justice, arguing that a particularly salient feature of poverty for health consequences is exposure to multiple environmental risk factors... - Housing quality and psychological well-being among the elderly populationGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 57:P381-3. 2002..g., income, gender), feel more attached to their home, which, in turn, appears to account for the relation between housing quality and positive affect... - The environment of poverty: multiple stressor exposure, psychophysiological stress, and socioemotional adjustmentGary W Evans
Department of Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Child Dev 73:1238-48. 2002..Preliminary mediational analyses with cross-sectional data suggest that cumulative stressor exposure may partially account for the well-documented, elevated risk of socioemotional difficulties accompanying poverty... - A multimethodological analysis of cumulative risk and allostatic load among rural childrenGary W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
Dev Psychol 39:924-33. 2003..Prior cumulative risk research was further extended through demonstration of self-regulatory behavior problems and elevated learned helplessness... - Chronic residential crowding and children's well-being: an ecological perspectiveG W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Child Dev 69:1514-23. 1998..We then demonstrate that perceived parent-child conflict functions as an underlying, intervening process that largely accounts for several correlates of household crowding among children... - Early childhood poverty, cumulative risk exposure, and body mass index trajectories through young adulthoodNancy M Wells
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Am J Public Health 100:2507-12. 2010..We assessed whether cumulative risk exposure underlies the relation between early childhood poverty and body mass index (BMI) trajectories... - Cross-cultural differences in tolerance for crowding: fact or fiction?G W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 79:204-10. 2000..These results hold independently of household income... - Parental language and verbal responsiveness to children in crowded homesG W Evans
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 4401, USA
Dev Psychol 35:1020-3. 1999..This mediational pathway is evident with statistical controls for socioeconomic status. This model may help explain prior findings showing a link between residential crowding and delayed cognitive development... 
Vulnerability as a function of individual and group resources in cumulative risk assessmentPeter L deFur
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:817-24. 2007..However, vulnerability has received little specific attention in the risk assessment literature...