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Behavioral geography stresses the links between environmental cognition and behavior, “considering the interrelationships between individuals, groups, society and the environment” (Gold, 2017). The geography subfield thrived from the 1960's to 1980's, with few geographers writing about the spatiality of human behavior acknowledging any links by the 1990s (Strauss, 2008). A recent account has coalesced various strands of research in geography under the umbrella of cognitive and behavioral geography (Montello, 2018). These strands highlight the contributions of testing theoretical assumptions and concepts of spatial behavior in the real world. Various other disciplines address decision making and spatial behavior with notable disagreements about some of the basic premises, assumptions and models of behavior, yet economic models of behavior are are often implicitly used in interdisciplinary spaces (Waldman et al., 2020). This has created a growing body of literature in the behavioral geography tradition that could benefit from unified theory and approaches around human behavior, decision making, and space. This session invites a wide range of research on decision making and behavior, showcasing the ways in which the tradition of behavioral geography has persisted and evolved. This includes but is not limited to a) empirically exploring applications of decision making, b) highlighting advances in relevant behavioral theory, and c) reviewing and reflecting on literature related to behavior and space. Together this session addresses what the future directions of research in behavioral geography might look like.

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