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Using environmental, social, and positive psychology to promote stronger connections to the world around us.
Tag: connectedness to nature
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Making Evaluation Easier for Small Nature-Based Initiatives
There are currently many nature-based initiatives (NBIs) operating in the public sector, all with the aim of reconnecting people with nature and improving wellbeing. While they share common aims, they are, by the very nature of these things, currently separate. While each of these NBIs are more than free to collect their own data to…
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Societal factors that influence nature connectedness
For the most part, psychologists tend to study individuals. And, for this reason, most nature connection research has tended to focus on the specific factors in individual’s lives (e.g., time outside, age, screen time, etc) that influence individual’s levels of nature connectedness. This is, of course, very important as the world is made up of…
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The Features of Nature That Connect Us
In our most recently accepted paper, Mile’s Richardson, Jack Hughes, and myself did some more network analyses. This time, instead of focusing on emotions and activities, like we did in our first network study, we instead focused on the natural features that seemed to most distinguish highly nature-connective experiences from ones that were a bit…
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The most ‘nature connective’ emotions and activities
Nature connectedness is influenced by an incredibly complex array of factors, from the activities we engage in, to the features of the places in which we engage them (paper forthcoming), and even to the emotions those places and activities evoke (see this paper for a thorough review). To put it simply, there is a web—or…
