A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental
health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial …

Evidence that experiences of nature can benefit people has accumulated rapidly. Yet
perhaps because of the domination of the visual sense in humans, most research has …

Mounting evidence demonstrates that nature exposure can have affective benefits. These
include behavioral and psychophysiological responses consistent with (a) decreases in …

A large number of studies have demonstrated the benefits of natural environments on
people's health and well-being. For people who have limited access to nature (eg, elderly in …

People spend considerable time within built environments. In this study, we tested two
hypotheses about the relationship between people and built environments. First, aesthetic …

Many people have the intuition that interacting with natural environments benefits their
psychological health. But what has research actually demonstrated about the benefits of …

Research has shown that humans have a preference for images of nature over images of
built environments, and that eye-movement behaviour and attention are significantly …

In the following experiments, we examined whether perceptions of naturalness in
architecture are linked to objective visual patterns, and we investigated how natural patterns …

In recent years, the physical and mental health of college students has received increasing
attention. Campus window views have the potential to help college students quickly relieve …

Does spending time in beautiful settings boost people's happiness? The answer to this
question has long remained elusive due to a paucity of large-scale data on environmental …