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Using environmental, social, and positive psychology to promote stronger connections to the world around us.
Tag: health
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Longing for nature: Nostalgia & Nature Connectedness
If you think back to your childhood and recall an experience in nature—especially a nice one—odds are you’ll feel something that is an odd mix of fondness but also longing to experience that exact moment again. A sweetness shaded with a slight bitterness knowing that the moment is gone. Nostalgia. Our recent research suggests that…
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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…
