The affective benefits of nature exposure: What's nature got to do with it?

KL Meidenbauer, CUD Stenfors, GN Bratman… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nature interactions have been demonstrated to produce reliable affective benefits. While
adults demonstrate strong preferences for natural environments over urban ones, it is not …

Nature exposure and social health: Prosocial behavior, social cohesion, and effect pathways

KD Arbuthnott - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper provides an integrative review of evidence from different research areas showing
that exposure to nature influences social health by evoking more prosocial judgments …

Simulated nature walks improve psychological well-being along a natural to urban continuum

G Brancato, K Van Hedger, MG Berman… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared to urban environments, interactions with natural environments have been
associated with several health benefits including psychological restoration and improved …

Satisfaction with urban trees associates with tree canopy cover and tree visibility around the home

C Ordóñez, SM Labib, L Chung, TM Conway - npj Urban Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Many world cities want to expand the number of urban trees. How this expansion occurs
should consider what people expect from trees based on how they experience and perceive …

Is the spatial distribution of urban green space associated with crime in Chicago?

J Ha, DH Choi, LE Darling - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2024 - Elsevier
During past decades, much progress has been made to elucidate the relationship between
the quantity of urban green space and crimes, but less is known about how their spatial …

Environmental influences on affect and cognition: A study of natural and commercial semi-public spaces

KE Schertz, JE Bowman, HP Kotabe, EA Layden… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has consistently shown differences in affect and cognition after exposure to
different physical environments. The time course of these differences emerging or fading …

An environmental neuroscience perspective on the benefits of nature

MG Berman, C Cardenas-Iniguez… - Nature and psychology …, 2021 - Springer
Environmental neuroscience is a field which uses multiple scales of analysis to elucidate the
ways in which the physical environment interacts with neural processing to affect behavior …

Cultural greenspaces: Synthesizing knowledge and experience in Nova Scotia's African-Canadian communities through participatory research and SoftGIS

R leBrasseur - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Greenspaces are integral components of communities and provide numerous benefits.
However, human development threatens these spaces, particularly in communities of color …

The influence of low-and mid-level visual features on the perception of streetscape qualities

GN Akcelik, KE Schertz, MG Berman - Human Perception of Visual …, 2022 - Springer
Recent research has quantified aspects of the built environment to understand which visual
features may play a role in environmental preferences and behavior. The occurrence of …

How the Physical Environment Influences Thought Content: The Role of Naturalness and Visual Features

KE Schertz - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The physical environments that people spend time in have wide ranging effects on cognitive
functioning, health, and well-being. One under-studied influence of the physical environment …