Environmental psychology

Environmental psychology is an offshoot of psychology as full subject. Environmental psychology looks into how environments affect human behaviour. I looked into this to see if a player/gamer can feel more emotional or attached to a game depending on what kind of environment they are playing in.  Mostly it was outside and how people in little villages are a lot happier than people are in cities and statistics on crime rates are different. I did come across that people enjoy being in large beautiful spaces which if a game developer could tap into would make more gamers/players enjoy their games. If an environment looks nice and somewhat realistic a player/gamer might be more inclined to play the game more just to see all the nice things the game has to offer.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdeyoung/envtpsych.html