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Journal of Environmental Psychology
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Abstract
an encounter with many unthreatening normal surroundings may have a anxiety reducing or restorative impact, whereas numerous metropolitan surroundings will hamper recuperation. Hypotheses regarding emotional, attentional and physiological facets of anxiety reducing impacts of nature derive from a theory that is psycho-evolutionary. To research these hypotheses, 120 subjects first seen a stressful film, after which had been subjected to color/sound videotapes of 1 of six various normal and metropolitan settings. Read more