Journal of Environmental Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours332
Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety300
Home garden use during COVID-19: Associations with physical and mental wellbeing in older adults144
Predicting climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviors in agricultural production: A comparison of the theory of planned behavior and the Value-Belief-Norm Theory114
What is the best way of delivering virtual nature for improving mood? An experimental comparison of high definition TV, 360° video, and computer generated virtual reality113
What drives pro-environmental activism of young people? A survey study on the Fridays For Future movement109
On the nature of eco-anxiety: How constructive or unconstructive is habitual worry about global warming?108
The role of climate change risk perception, response efficacy, and psychological adaptation in pro-environmental behavior: A two nation study104
Towards cross-cultural environmental psychology: A state-of-the-art review and recommendations96
The role of trust for climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviour: A meta-analysis80
Reducing, and bridging, the psychological distance of climate change77
Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries60
The value of what others value: When perceived biospheric group values influence individuals’ pro-environmental engagement58
Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects57
“Re-placed” - Reconsidering relationships with place and lessons from a pandemic56
When and how pro-environmental attitudes turn into behavior: The role of costs, benefits, and self-control50
Social identity as a key concept for connecting transformative societal change with individual environmental activism50
Climate anxiety: What predicts it and how is it related to climate action?48
Connectedness with nature and the decline of pro-environmental behavior in adolescence: A comparison of Canada and China48
The use of virtual reality in environment experiences and the importance of realism47
Being moved by protest: Collective efficacy beliefs and injustice appraisals enhance collective action intentions for forest protection via positive and negative emotions47
Listen to others or yourself? The role of personal norms on the effectiveness of social norm interventions to change pro-environmental behavior46
Experienced guilt, but not pride, mediates the effect of feedback on pro-environmental behavior46
The case for impact-focused environmental psychology44
Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task43
Changing environmental behaviour from the bottom up: The formation of pro-environmental social identities42
Distant from others, but close to home: The relationship between home attachment and mental health during COVID-1942
Influencing climate change attitudes in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis42
Applying an attitude network approach to consumer behaviour towards plastic42
Measuring place attachment with the Abbreviated Place Attachment Scale (APAS)42
When do values promote pro-environmental behaviors? Multilevel evidence on the self-expression hypothesis41
Psychological benefits of a biodiversity-focussed outdoor learning program for primary school children41
Emotion recognition changes in a confinement situation due to COVID-1940
Why going green feels good39
Nature can get it out of your mind: The rumination reducing effects of contact with nature and the mediating role of awe and mood39
Messaging for environmental action: The role of moral framing and message source39
Greener Than Thou: People who protect the environment are more cooperative, compete to be environmental, and benefit from reputation38
What counts as an “environmental” issue? Differences in issue conceptualization by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status37
Pride and guilt predict pro-environmental behavior: A meta-analysis of correlational and experimental evidence37
Pro-environmental behavior as a signal of cooperativeness: Evidence from a social dilemma experiment36
Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support35
Words not deeds: National narcissism, national identification, and support for greenwashing versus genuine proenvironmental campaigns35
SARS-Cov-2 and environmental protection: A collective psychology agenda for environmental psychology research34
How much distance do humans keep toward robots? Literature review, meta-analysis, and theoretical considerations on personal space in human-robot interaction34
Effects of COVID-19-related stay-at-home order on neuropsychophysiological response to urban spaces: Beneficial role of exposure to nature?33
Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.33
The role of national identity in collective pro-environmental action33
This land is my land: Psychological ownership increases willingness to protect the natural world more than legal ownership32
Virtual immersion in nature and psychological well-being: A systematic literature review32
More green than gray? Toward a sustainable overview of environmental spillover effects: A Bayesian meta-analysis32
Psychological well-being and demographic factors can mediate soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness: A large sample study32
How anxiety and growth mindset are linked to navigation ability: Impacts of exploration and GPS use31
The cross-cultural challenges of integrating personal norms into the Theory of Planned Behavior: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) approach30
The bright and dark sides of length of residence in the neighbourhood: Consequences for local participation and openness to newcomers29
The effect of orientation instructions on the recall and reuse of route and survey elements in wayfinding descriptions29
Minding other people's business: Community attachment and anticipated negative emotion in an extended norm activation model29
To veg or not to veg? The impact of framing on vegetarian food choice29
“Global warming” versus “climate change”: A replication on the association between political self-identification, question wording, and environmental beliefs29
Effects of competence- and integrity-based trust on public acceptability of renewable energy projects in China and the Netherlands29
A qualitative investigation of unsupervised outdoor activities for 10- to 13-year-old children: “I like adventuring but I don't like adventuring without being careful”29
Collective responses to global challenges: The social psychology of pro-environmental action29
Reducing personal clothing consumption: A cross-cultural validation of the comprehensive action determination model29
Impacts of nature and built acoustic-visual environments on human’s multidimensional mood states: A cross-continent experiment28
Financial rewards for long-term environmental protection28
Biophilic office design: Exploring the impact of a multisensory approach on human well-being28
Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis28
Evaluating the impacts of color, graphics, and architectural features on wayfinding in healthcare settings using EEG data and virtual response testing28
Wean off green: On the (in)effectiveness of biospheric appeals for consumption curtailment27
Development and validation of a climate change perceptions scale27
Nature promotes self-transcendence and prosocial behavior26
Understanding the psychology X politics interaction behind environmental activism: The roles of governmental trust, density of environmental NGOs, and democracy26
Offsetting behavioral costs with personal attitude: Identifying the psychological essence of an environmental attitude measure26
Referent group specificity: Optimizing normative feedback to increase residential recycling25
The relationship between identity and environmental concern: A meta-analysis25
How do I feel when I think about taking action? Hope and boredom, not anxiety and helplessness, predict intentions to take climate action25
Concern for the future and saving the earth: When does ecological resource scarcity promote pro-environmental behavior?25
Attention restoration during environmental exposure via alpha-theta oscillations and synchronization25
Cut back or give it up? The effectiveness of reduce and eliminate appeals and dynamic norm messaging to curb meat consumption24
Exploring psychological restoration in favorite indoor and outdoor urban places using a top-down perspective24
Fear for the future: Eco-anxiety and health implications, a systematic review24
Information sources, perceived personal experience, and climate change beliefs23
Environmental behavior in three countries: The role of intergenerational transmission and domains of socialization23
Self-regulation gains in kindergarten related to frequency of green schoolyard use23
Global climate marches sharply raise attention to climate change: Analysis of climate search behavior in 46 countries22
Affordances for physical activity and well-being in the ECEC outdoor environment22
An examination of the social-psychological drivers of homeowner wildfire mitigation22
The roles of motivation and goals on sustainable behaviour in a resource dilemma: A self-determination theory perspective22
Religion, environmental guilt, and pro-environmental support: The opposing pathways of stewardship belief and belief in a controlling god22
Exploring adolescents’ waste prevention via Value-Identity-Personal norm and Comprehensive Action Determination Models22
Exploring how climate change subjective attribution, personal experience with extremes, concern, and subjective knowledge relate to pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions in the United 22
Stress recovery from virtual exposure to a brown (desert) environment versus a green environment22
Beating the blues by viewing Green: Depressive symptoms predict greater restoration from stress and negative affect after viewing a nature video21
Increasing people's acceptance of anthropogenic climate change with scientific facts: Is mechanistic information more effective for environmentalists?21
How a growth mindset can change the climate: The power of implicit beliefs in influencing people's view and action21
Assessment protocol and effects of two dynamic light patterns on human well-being and performance in a simulated and operational office environment21
Greenwash yourself: The relationship between communal and agentic narcissism and pro-environmental behavior21
Out of the noise: Effects of sound environment on maths performance in middle-school students21
Restorative effects of exposure to nature on children and adolescents: A systematic review20
Is green the new sexy? Romantic of conspicuous conservation20
A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct20
Theory enhances impact. Reply to: ‘The case for impact-focused environmental psychology’20
Positive spillover: The result of attitude change20
How to attract employees back to the office? A stated choice study on hybrid working preferences20
Simulated nature walks improve psychological well-being along a natural to urban continuum19
Pathways of place dependence and place identity influencing recycling in the extended theory of planned behavior19
Menu design approaches to promote sustainable vegetarian food choices when dining out19
Price of change: Does a small alteration to the price of meat and vegetarian options affect their sales?19
Paying attention to climate change: Positive images of climate change solutions capture attention19
Why do cosmopolitan individuals tend to be more pro-environmentally committed? The mediating pathways via knowledge acquisition and emotional affinity toward nature18
Pro-environmental behaviour and support for environmental policy as expressions of pro-environmental motivation18
Straw wars: Pro-environmental spillover following a guilt appeal18
Categorical & coordinate spatial information: Can they be disentangled in sketch maps?18
The advantage of globally visible landmarks for spatial learning18
Guilt consistently motivates pro-environmental outcomes while pride depends on context18
Place attachment in green buildings: Making the connections17
Gratitude to nature: Presenting a theory of its conceptualization, measurement, and effects on pro-environmental behavior17
Action, communication, and engagement: How parents “ACE” Children's pro-environmental behaviors17
Knowledge, perceived potential and trust as determinants of low- and high-impact pro-environmental behaviours17
Less is more? Effects of more vs. less electric light on alertness, mood, sleep and appraisals of light in an operational office17
Beliefs about others' global warming beliefs: The role of party affiliation and opinion deviance17
Would you eat a burger made in a petri dish? Why people feel disgusted by cultured meat17
Environmental self-regulation in favourite places of Finnish and Hungarian adults17
Proenvironmental attitudes predict proenvironmental consumer behaviors over time16
Exploring relationships between climate change beliefs and energy preferences: A network analysis of the European Social Survey16
Discounting environmental policy: The effects of psychological distance over time and space16
Learning from navigation, and tasks assessing its accuracy: The role of visuospatial abilities and wayfinding inclinations16
Political ingroup conformity and pro-environmental behavior: Evaluating the evidence from a survey and mousetracking experiments16
Simulated natural environments bolster the effectiveness of a mindfulness programme: A comparison with a relaxation-based intervention16
Psychological responses to buildings and natural landscapes16
Effects of home environment structure on navigation preference and performance: A comparison in Veneto, Italy and Utah, USA16
Changing diets - Testing the impact of knowledge and information nudges on sustainable dietary choices16
Do past-focused environmental messages promote pro-environmentalism to conservatives? A pre-registered replication16
Objective measures of cognitive performance in activity based workplaces and traditional office types16
Local mobility culture as injunctive normative beliefs – A theoretical approach and a related measurement instrument15
Love for the globe but also the country matter for the environment: Links between nationalistic, patriotic, global identification and pro-environmentalism15
The influence of different efficacy constructs on energy conservation intentions and climate change policy support15
Do indoor plants improve performance and well-being in offices? Divergent results from laboratory and field studies15
See or Be? Contact with nature and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown15
Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing15
Exploring the roles of analytic cognitive style, climate science literacy, illusion of knowledge, and political orientation in climate change skepticism15
Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States15
Do autistic traits predict pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, and climate change belief?15
Space at home and psychological distress during the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy15
Landmark-based navigation instructions improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition in real-world environments15
The COVID-19 crisis does not diminish environmental motivation: Evidence from two panel studies of decision making and self-reported pro-environmental behavior15
For the love of nature: People who prefer natural versus synthetic drugs are higher in nature connectedness15
Where do we want to see other people while relaxing in a city park? Visual relationships with park users and their impact on preferences, safety and privacy15
The value of eudaimonia for understanding relationships among values and pro-environmental behavior14
Buy green, gain prestige and social status14
How and when financial incentives crowd out pro-environmental motivation: A longitudinal quasi-experimental study14
Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior14
Disgusting? No, just deviating from internalized norms. Understanding consumer skepticism toward sustainable food alternatives14
Testing the Biophilia theory: Automatic approach tendencies towards nature14
Loving, leaving, living: Evacuation site place attachment predicts natural hazard coping behavior14
Experiencing urban spaces and social meanings through social Media:Unravelling the relationships between Instagram city-related use, Sense of Place, and Sense of Community14
Going rural: Qualitative perspectives on the role of place attachment in young people's intentions to return to the country14
The role of environmental identity and individualism/collectivism in predicting climate change denial: Evidence from nine countries14
When your shop says #lessismore. Online communication interventions for clothing sufficiency14
How do urban green spaces increase well-being? The role of perceived wildness and nature connectedness13
Replicating the focus theory of normative conduct as tested by Cialdini et al. (1990)13
From oppressiveness to stress: A development of Stress Reduction Theory in the context of contemporary high-density city13
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity13
The relation between workplace attachment style, design satisfaction, privacy and exhaustion in office employees: A moderated mediation model13
The supportive role of environmental attitude for learning about environmental issues13
Assessing the mobilization potential of environmental advocacy communication13
Purpose by design or disaster: Preserving a sense of purpose amid environmental uncertainty13
Self-nature representations: On the unique consequences of nature-self size on pro-environmental action13
Test-retest reliability and construct validity of the Pro-Environmental Behavior Task13
Walk it off! The effectiveness of walk and talk coaching in nature for individuals with burnout- and stress-related complaints13
Testing the impact of images in environmental campaigns13
Viewing a flower image provides automatic recovery effects after psychological stress13
The role of social desirability responding in the longitudinal relations between intention and behaviour13
On solid ground: Secure attachment promotes place attachment13
Association between caregiver perceived green space quality and the development of prosocial behaviour from childhood to adolescence: Latent class trajectory and multilevel longitudinal analyses of Au13
A meaningful reminder on sustainability: When explicit and implicit packaging cues meet13
Personal or planetary health? Direct, spillover and carryover effects of non-monetary benefits of vegetarian behaviour12
Psychological and demographic predictors of plastic bag consumption in transaction data12
Effects of perceived social norms on support for renewable energy transition: Moderation by national culture and environmental risks12
Green exercise, mental health symptoms, and state lockdown policies: A longitudinal study12
Beyond subjective and personal: Endorsing pro-environmental norms as moral norms12
Structural salience of landmark pictograms in maps as a predictor for object location memory performance12
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale12
Neighbourhood greenspace and children's trajectories of self-regulation: Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study12
Protecting the commons: Predictors of willingness to mitigate communal land degradation among Maasai pastoralists12
Why does nature enhance psychological well-being?A Self-Determination account12
Beauty of the Beast: Beauty as an important dimension in the moral standing of animals12
Explaining the difference between the predictive power of value orientations and self-determined motivation for proenvironmental behavior12
Adding native plants to home landscapes: The roles of attitudes, social norms, and situational strength12
The role of gratitude in motivating intergenerational environmental stewardship12
Experiencing place-change: A shared sense of loss after closure of village facilities11
BIO-WELL: The development and validation of a human wellbeing scale that measures responses to biodiversity11
Nature guided imagery: An intervention to increase connectedness to nature11
Mechanisms underlying childhood exposure to blue spaces and adult subjective well-being: An 18-country analysis11
Looking at buildings or trees? Association of human nature relatedness with eye movements in outdoor space11
Perceived responsibility towards future generations and environmental concern: Convergent evidence across multiple outcomes in a large, nationally representative sample11
Restoration of sustained attention following virtual nature exposure: Undeniable or unreliable?11
Satisfaction with activity-support and physical home-workspace characteristics in relation to mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology11
Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries11
Children older than five years do not approve of wasting food: An experimental study on attitudes towards food wasting behavior in children and adults11
Attitudes and emotions as predictors of support for wolf management11
Which is primary: Preference or perceived instoration?11
Environmental learning in a virtual environment: Do gender, spatial self-efficacy, and visuospatial abilities matter?10
Spaces for relaxing, spaces for recharging: How parks affect people's emotions10
From theory to action: Explaining the process of knowledge attitudes and practices regarding the use and disposal of plastic among school children10
Rounded or angular? How the physical work environment in makerspaces influences makers’ creativity10
Motivating sustainability through morality: A daily diary study on the link between moral self-control and clothing consumption10
Subjective and physiological responses towards daylit spaces with contemporary façade patterns in virtual reality: Influence of sky type, space function, and latitude10
Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism10
Acceptability of policies to reduce consumption of red and processed meat: A population-based survey experiment10
Self-construals and environmental values in 55 cultures10
Imagining a sustainable world: Measuring cognitive alternatives to the environmental status quo10
Ocean connectedness and consumer responses to single-use packaging10
Nature connectedness boosts the bright side of emotion regulation, which in turn reduces stress10
Do spatial characteristics influence behavior and development in early childhood education and care?10
The way we perceive a place implies who can live there: Essentialisation of place and attitudes towards diversity10
Making theory useful for understanding high-impact behavior. A response to van Valkengoed et al. (2021)10
Perceived responsibility to address climate change consistently relates to increased pro-environmental attitudes, behaviors and policy support: Evidence across 23 countries10
"You know nothing, John Doe" – Judgmental overconfidence in lay climate knowledge9
Promoting plant-based food choices: Findings from a field experiment with over 150,000 consumer decisions9
The importance for wellbeing of having views of nature from and in the home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from the GreenCOVID study9
Opposing effects of Spirituality and Religious Fundamentalism on environmental attitudes9
Anger consensus messaging can enhance expectations for collective action and support for climate mitigation9
Climate change threatens nomadic herding in Mongolia: A model of climate change risk perception and behavioral adaptation9
The impacts of nature connectedness on children's well-being: Systematic literature review9
Socio-political efficacy explains increase in New Zealanders’ pro-environmental attitudes due to COVID-199
Greening the room: A quasi-experimental study on the presence of potted plants in study rooms on mood, cognitive performance, and perceived environmental quality among university students9
Ocean imagery relates to an individual's cognitions and pro-environmental behaviours9
Facing natural disasters through the endorsement of authoritarian attitudes9
Good eats, bad intentions? Reputational costs of organic consumption9
High-income Households—Damned to consume or free to engage in high-impact energy-saving behaviours?9
A comparison of children's play and non-play behavior before and after schoolyard greening monitored by video observations9
Illuminating illumination: Understanding the influence of ambient lighting on prosocial behaviors9
In search of weakened resolve: Does climate-engineering awareness decrease individuals’ commitment to mitigation?9
A “vegetarian curry stew” or just a “curry stew”? - The effect of neutral labeling of vegetarian dishes on food choice among meat-reducers and non-reducers8
Knowledge of familiar environments: Assessing modalities and individual visuo-spatial factors8
Different types of virtual natural environments enhance subjective vitality through restorativeness8
How do schoolchildren perceive litter? Overlooked in urban but not in natural environments8
Promoting the work engagement of the health worker: The role of secure workplace attachment, perceived spatial-physical comfort, and relationship with patients8
Spatial dark figures of rapes: (In)Consistencies across police and hospital data8
Personality changes associated with increasing environmental concerns8
Policy attributes, perceived impacts, and climate change policy preferences8
Different names for “natural gas” influence public perception of it8
“Nature is mine/ours”: Measuring individual and collective psychological ownership of nature8
The warm glow of recycling can make us more wasteful8
Using natural intervention to promote subjective well-being of essential workers during public-health crises: A Study during COVID-19 pandemic8
Immersive storm surge flooding: Scale and risk perception in virtual reality8
Conceptual replication study and meta-analysis suggest simulated nature does not reliably restore pure executive attention measured by the attention network task8
Pay more, fly more? Examining the potential guilt-reducing and flight-encouraging effect of an integrated carbon offset8
Mixed evidence for the effect of virtual nature exposure on effortful pro-environmental behavior8
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