Journal of Environmental Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception205
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The burden of climate action: How environmental responsibility is impacted by socioeconomic status120
Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks119
Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance106
Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach103
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change96
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?83
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What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study80
Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic78
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros76
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing75
Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior71
Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework59
Characteristics of physical environments that enhance learning: A systematic review of EEG-Based empirical studies59
Predictors of hurricane evacuation decisions: A meta-analysis57
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity56
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment55
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales54
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic52
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods50
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression49
Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale49
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?48
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments48
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale47
Re-examining feelings of responsibility as a predictor of climate belief and worry: A replication across 31 countries47
Sniffing the distance: Scents can make objects appear closer46
Can an observational training improve the ability of children to navigate in familiar and unfamiliar environments?46
Household crowding during the COVID-19 lockdown fosters anti-democracy even after 17 months: A 5-wave latent growth curve study45
Frame by frame, attitude by attitude – The effect of information framing in videos on consumers’ acceptance of sustainable food production innovations45
Policy attributes, perceived impacts, and climate change policy preferences43
Time perception in naturalistic and urban immersive virtual reality environments43
Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various bluespaces: An electroencephalography study43
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California42
Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance41
Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism41
Eco-anxiety and climate-anxiety linked to indirect exposure: A scoping review of empirical research40
The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing39
Toward conceptualizing “place immersion” as a spatial neuropsychosocial phenomenon: A multidisciplinary meta-review and -synthesis39
Can organizations shape eco-friendly employees? Organizational support improves pro-environmental behaviors at work39
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling39
Insights into eco-anxiety in Italy: Preliminary psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale, age and gender distribution39
Greater perceived access to green spaces near homes: Safer and more satisfied residents38
Introducing and testing the personal-collective-governmental efficacy typology: How personal, collective, and governmental efficacy subtypes are associated with differential environmental actions38
Children's perception of urban green infrastructure and nature-related digital tools37
GPS use and navigation ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis37
Positive emotional experiences from nature contact: A thematic analysis on types and regulation pathways37
When perception Shapes Reality: A large-scale study of mental health outcomes in polluted and non-polluted environments in China36
Beauty of the Beast: Beauty as an important dimension in the moral standing of animals35
I want to, not I have to: The double-edged sword effect of green involvement on employee green creativity35
Place identity and older residents’ coping strategies while ageing in declining neighbourhoods of urban China35
What is measured in pro-environmental behavior research?35
Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist35
Passive nature exposure positively predicts prosocial behavior by alleviating perceived crowdedness35
The contribution of environmental sensitivity and connectedness to nature to mental health: Does nature view count?33
Mindfulness empowers employees' green performance: The relationship and cross-level mechanisms between green mindfulness leadership and employees’ green behavior33
Exposure to nature leads to a stronger natural-is-better bias in Chinese people33
When do individuals take action to protect the environment?——Exploring the mediating effects of negative impacts of environmental risk32
Developing and testing a protocol to systematically assess social interaction with urban outdoor environment32
Testing the cross-cultural invariance of an extended theory of planned behaviour in predicting biodiversity-conserving behavioural intentions32
Pro-environmental behaviour, connectedness with nature, and the endorsement of pro-environmental norms in youth: Longitudinal relations32
Well-being and multisensory urban parks at different ages: The role of interoception and audiovisual perception32
The influence of spatial dimensions of virtual environments on attitudes and nonverbal behaviors during social interactions31
Impact of natural views on mental health during COVID-19 quarantine: A natural experiment31
Living closer to the beach is associated with better socioemotional development in young boys30
The role of environmental identity and individualism/collectivism in predicting climate change denial: Evidence from nine countries30
Rethinking the nature vs. urban environment dichotomy: Aligning research classifications with human visual perception30
Associations between the home physical environment and child self-regulation: A conceptual exploration29
The impact of the indoor home environment on children's prosocial behaviour29
Development of a measuring instrument to monitor the biodiversity awareness of the German population29
Is safety a state of mind? Exploring the impact of arousal on pedestrians’ safety appraisals and attentiveness29
Corrigendum to “Paying people to protect the environment: A meta-analysis of financial incentive interventions to promote proenvironmental behaviors” [Journal of Environmental Psychology 47 (2016) 24229
From attitude to identity? A field experiment on attitude activation, identity formation, and meat reduction28
How student perceptions of stuffy air and unpleasant odour are associated with students’ well-being: Cross-level interaction effects of school climate28
Perceived national wealth increases support for structural climate policies28
The influence of social exclusion on adolescents' social withdrawal behavior: The moderating role of connectedness to nature28
Restorative effects of daylight in indoor environments – A systematic literature review28
Lighting color temperature impacts effort-related cardiovascular response to an auditory short-term memory task28
Preferred distance from camera for online interactions and its relation with individual differences in pathogen sensitivity27
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Psychological attributes of house facades: A graph network approach in environmental psychology27
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The impact of perceived partisanship on climate policy support: A conceptual replication and extension of the temporal framing effect27
Examining relations between left-wing authoritarianism and environmentalism26
Why should I? How victim sensitivity affects pro-environmental engagement26
Beyond the lab: Feasibility of cognitive neuroscience data collection during a speleological expedition26
Home environments in an age of precarity26
Disgusting? No, just deviating from internalized norms. Understanding consumer skepticism toward sustainable food alternatives25
Using artificial ground murals to promote restorative sidewalk experiences: Effects of colors and patterns on mood, perceived restorativeness, and heart rate in virtual reality25
Effects of natural sound on human stress recovery based on EEG techniques25
The emotional influence of different geometries in virtual spaces: A neurocognitive examination24
Stereotypes of pro-environmental people: Perception of competence and warmth24
Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children24
The natural world around me; a qualitative exploration of young people's relationship to nature and how it relates to their wellbeing and feelings of pro-environmental behaviour24
Offsetting behavioral costs with personal attitude: Identifying the psychological essence of an environmental attitude measure24
A social-cognitive model of climate change behavioral adaption in Tonga: Relationships among indigenous knowledge, social media use, norms, values, and spiritual beliefs24
High-income Households—Damned to consume or free to engage in high-impact energy-saving behaviours?24
A conservation orientation in commons dilemmas23
Effects of an afforestation activity on thermal and mechanical pain mechanisms: A clinical trial23
Switching between body and environment: The selective effect of spatial misalignment23
Climate change threatens nomadic herding in Mongolia: A model of climate change risk perception and behavioral adaptation23
Aesthetics and logistics in urban parks; can moving waste receptacles to park exits decrease littering?23
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Reflections on the paradigm of virtual migration and real-world place attachment22
Understimulation resembles overstimulation: Effects on school children's attentional performance, affect, and environmental preference22
Compassion questionnaire for animals: Scale development and validation22
Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour21
Present generation’s negotiators realize their interests at the cost of future generations21
Transient decreases in blood pressure and heart rate with increased subjective level of relaxation while viewing water compared with adjacent ground21
The influence of social context and activity on the emotional well-being of forest visitors: A field study21
Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism20
‘It feels smaller now’: The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on apartment residents and their living environment – A longitudinal study20
A review of the application of EEG signals in the study of thermal comfort20
The influence of different efficacy constructs on energy conservation intentions and climate change policy support20
Current research practices on pro-environmental behavior: A survey of environmental psychologists20
Reasonable or radical? First-order, second-order, and meta-stereotypes of different climate activists among the German public and climate activists20
Cultural shift for pro-environmental behavioural change: Developing and validating the Environmental Culture in Organisations (ECO) Scale19
Religion, environmental guilt, and pro-environmental support: The opposing pathways of stewardship belief and belief in a controlling god19
Effects of the physical environment on children and families in hospital-based emergency departments: A systematic literature review19
A general explanation for environmental policy support: An example using carbon taxation approval in Germany19
Using natural intervention to promote subjective well-being of essential workers during public-health crises: A Study during COVID-19 pandemic19
Comparative study on birdsong and its multi-sensory combinational effects on physio-psychological restoration19
Beating the blues by viewing Green: Depressive symptoms predict greater restoration from stress and negative affect after viewing a nature video19
Reactions to warnings in the climate commons19
Testing the effects of health-benefit, environmental-benefit and co-benefit priming for promoting sustainable food choice and their psychological mechanisms: A randomized controlled trial combined wit19
Adverse relations between substandard housing and self-regulation are accentuated for children with difficult temperament18
The commodification of nature: How virtual nature could reinforce environmental generational amnesia18
Orientation behavior in men and women: The relationship between gender stereotype, growth mindset, and spatial self-efficacy18
Factor structure, measurement equivalence, and reliability of the Nature Relatedness Scale Short Form (NR-6) across males and females18
The Gateway Belief Model: A pre-registered large-scale replication in China18
Affective responses to urban but not to natural scenes depend on inter-individual differences in childhood nature exposure18
Place attachment satisfies psychological needs in the context of environmental risk coping: Experimental evidence of a link between self-determination theory and person-place relationship effects18
Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: Results from the Berlin aging study18
Environmental learning in a virtual environment: Do gender, spatial self-efficacy, and visuospatial abilities matter?18
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The moderating effect of place attachment on visitors’ trust and support for recreational fees in national parks18
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 18
Climate change scepticism and its impacts on individuals’ engagement with climate change mitigation and adaptation to heat in Hong Kong: A two-wave population-based study18
Physical and mental health impacts of housing improvement: A quasi-experimental evaluation of in-situ slum redevelopment in India18
Sacrificing for the environment: The role of nonzero-sum beliefs18
It is just wrong: Moral foundations and food waste17
Impacts of nature and built acoustic-visual environments on human’s multidimensional mood states: A cross-continent experiment17
Pride and guilt predict pro-environmental behavior: A meta-analysis of correlational and experimental evidence17
How do we motivate farmers to adopt low-carbon production? Analysis of extrinsic incentives’ internalization17
Do economic preferences and personality traits influence fertilizer use? Evidence from rice farmers in eastern China17
Feelings of safety for visitors recreating outdoors at night in different artificial lighting conditions17
Perceived distributive fairness and public acceptance of a policy mandating on-site wastewater treatment and reuse16
Climate change mitigation: A question of humanitarian or environmental motivation?16
Corrigendum to “Effects of near-infrared radiation in ambient lighting on cognitive performance, emotion, and heart rate variability” [Journal of Environmental Psychology 100 (2024) 102484]16
Green Meal? The role of situational contexts for real-time vegetarian Meal choices16
The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework16
Supporting and expressing support for environmental policies16
Doing laundry with biodegradable soap nuts: Can rare and novel behaviors break bad habitual patterns?16
Nature experience and well-being: Bird watching as an intervention in nursing homes to maintain cognitive resources, mobility, and biopsychosocial health16
Longitudinal relationship between long-distance commuting willingness and behavior: Evidence from European data16
Immersion in nature decreases neural sensitivity to extrinsic reward16
The effects of synchrony on spatial cue choice in a virtual wayfinding task16
Shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection amongst university students16
Relationship between housing damage and serum cortisol among survivors of the 2011 tsunami disaster16
Pro-environmental behavior in a common-resource dilemma: The role of beliefs16
Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing16
Boosting neighbourhood identification to benefit wellbeing: Evidence from diverse community samples16
How to visualize the spatial uncertainty of landmark representations in maps?16
Mindfulness disposition as a protective factor against stress in Antarctica: A potential countermeasure for long-duration spaceflight?16
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Determining social-psychological drivers of Texas Gulf Coast homeowners’ intention to implement private green infrastructure practices16
Think green: Investing cognitive effort for a pro-environmental cause15
Beyond blue-sky thinking: Diurnal patterns and ephemeral meteorological phenomena impact appraisals of beauty, awe, and value in urban and natural landscapes15
Do autistic traits predict pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, and climate change belief?15
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Consensus messaging in climate change communication: Metacognition as moderator variable in the gateway belief model15
The cross-cultural challenges of integrating personal norms into the Theory of Planned Behavior: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) approach15
Corrigendum to “Why going green feels good.” [Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), Volume 71, 101492]15
Investigating the relationship between spatial and social cognitive maps in humans15
How and when financial incentives crowd out pro-environmental motivation: A longitudinal quasi-experimental study15
The value of multi-proxy experiments to study pro-environmental behavior15
Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis15
The parental perspective of residential environments associated with children's self-regulation15
Testing an integrated model of climate change anxiety15
Climate change concerns impact on young Australians’ psychological distress and outlook for the future15
How attractive is sustainability in products: A Systematic Review about eye-tracking studies on sustainability labels15
From theory to action: Explaining the process of knowledge attitudes and practices regarding the use and disposal of plastic among school children14
Attitudes towards technology and their relationship with pro-environmental behaviour: Development and validation of the GATT scale14
Testing the Biophilia theory: Automatic approach tendencies towards nature14
The role of lay beliefs about willpower and daily demands in day-to-day pro-environmental behavior14
A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct14
The relationship between inpatient mental health ward design and aggression14
The where, how, and who of mitigating climate change: A targeted research agenda for psychology14
Two sides of the same fence: A model of the origins and consequences of meat-related conflict in omnivores and veg*ans14
Relaxing effects of virtual environments on the autonomic nervous system indicated by heart rate variability: A systematic review14
Personal or planetary health? Direct, spillover and carryover effects of non-monetary benefits of vegetarian behaviour14
Encountering an emotional landmark on the route for a better spatial memory: What matters, valence or arousal?13
Environmental messages to promote sustainable seafood choices: An exploratory mobile app intervention13
Assessing the well-being benefits of VR nature experiences on group: Heart rate variability insights from a cross-over study13
The way we perceive a place implies who can live there: Essentialisation of place and attitudes towards diversity13
Incremental adaptation when transformation fails: The importance of place-based values and trust in governance in avoiding maladaptation13
Stress recovery from virtual exposure to a brown (desert) environment versus a green environment13
Personality traits and climate change denial, concern, and proactivity: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
The cleaner the environment, the happier the people: Integrating a nationwide public survey and environmental quality monitoring data in South Korea13
Outdoor learning in urban schools: Effects on 4–5 year old children's noise and physiological stress13
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-reducers13
The effects of activity-based workplaces on contributors to organizational productivity: A systematic review13
The visual preference and physiological response to Sierpinski triangle acoustic diffuser: An experimental study using VR technique13
Investigating the benefits of viewing nature for components of working memory capacity13
Nature walks versus medication: A pre-registered randomized-controlled trial in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder12
What about the children? The effectiveness of including children in environmental appeals12
Why humans form place attachment: A terror management perspective12
What do people say is the most important reason to protect nature? An analysis of pro-environmental motives across 11 countries12
Societal gender role beliefs moderate the pattern of gender differences in public- and private-sphere pro-environmental behaviors12
The impact of visualization techniques of immersive virtual scenarios in promoting nature connectedness: A blind randomized controlled trial with mixed-methods approach12
Mental gravity: Modelling the embodied self on the physical environment12
Understanding and measuring young people’s sustainability actions12
Political divide in climate change opinions is stronger in some countries and some U.S. states than others: Testing the self-expression hypothesis and the fossil fuel reliance hypothesis12
Study of the links between emotional regulation strategies and sense of place in the expression of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in flood victims12
The mechanism of adolescent environmental passion influencing parent pro-environmental behavior12
Eudaimonic self-expansion: The effects of eudaimonic reflections on nature connectedness12
Are we more welcoming as neighbors or as citizens? Collective psychological ownership and attitudes toward immigrants12
Are we on the same page? Exploring the relationships between environmental values, self-identity, personal norms and behavior in parent-adolescent dyads12
Reducing meat consumption in restaurants: Exploring the default mechanism in a surprise menu, combined with effort and price incentives12
The impacts of nature connectedness on children's well-being: Systematic literature review12
BIO-WELL: The development and validation of a human wellbeing scale that measures responses to biodiversity12
Does viewing an environment without occluders improve spatial learning of a large-scale virtual environment?11
Go out or stress out? Exploring nature connectedness and cumulative stressors as resilience and vulnerability factors in different manifestations of climate anxiety11
Economic vulnerability and emotions toward climate change: A case study of Spain11
Mindfulness to climate change inaction: The role of awe, “Dragons of inaction” psychological barriers and nature connectedness11
Would you eat a burger made in a petri dish? Why people feel disgusted by cultured meat11
Attachment to real-world places and willingness to migrate to metaverse virtual worlds11
Interaction of orientation cues within a nested virtual environment11
Effects of simulated natural light brightness on visual perception in virtual reality forests: An eye-tracking study11
Corrigendum to “Using information provision and interactive risk maps to motivate testing for radon” [Journal of Environmental Psychology 89 (2023) 102057]11
Exploring the impacts of the soundscape, awe and knowledge on pro-environmental intent11
Changing community climate change attitudes: Evidence from a community exhibit intervention11
The COVID-19 crisis does not diminish environmental motivation: Evidence from two panel studies of decision making and self-reported pro-environmental behavior11
Examining the relationship between knowledge and attitude extremity on genetic engineering technology: A conceptual replication study from China11
Compensatory green beliefs about curtailment behavior: “Mending is better than saving for a rainy day"11
Perceived effects of residential design on mental well-being: A quasi-experimental study of the University of Michigan's Munger graduate residences11
An item response theory approach to measurement in environmental psychology: A practical example with environmental risk perception11
The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic11
Research on the physiological and psychological impacts of extraordinary nature on emotions and restorative effects for young adults11
Opinion polls as measures of commitment to goals: Environmental attitude in Germany from 1996 to 201811
Impact of workplace design on perceived work performance and well-being: Home versus office11
Forest features and mental health and wellbeing: A scoping review11
Walk it off! The effectiveness of walk and talk coaching in nature for individuals with burnout- and stress-related complaints11
The green decision maker: Restoring decision making through exposure to environmental stimuli11
Self-silencing predicts behavioral conformity in sustainability contexts10
Examining the (non-linear) relationships between climate change anxiety, information seeking, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions10
Social influence and reduction of animal protein consumption among young adults: Insights from a socio-psychological model10
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