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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance321
Political differences in climate change knowledge and their association with climate attitudes, behavior, and policy support233
The impact of war-induced relocation on sense of place: Examining its moderating role between event severity and psychological symptomatology197
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment120
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression109
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Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach104
Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale103
Characteristics of physical environments that enhance learning: A systematic review of EEG-Based empirical studies83
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change82
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?81
What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study77
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity76
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic68
How self-efficacy and response efficacy change with risk and adaptation behaviors during tropical cyclones66
Of sunsets, stars, and rainbows: Embracing the sky in restoration research64
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros64
Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks61
Environmental framing and left-wing political orientation promote sustainability in a US-based common-pool resource dilemma61
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?61
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale60
Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic59
Spillover from general and specific pro-environmental behavior to climate-friendly choices and policy Acceptance: The mediating role of psychological engagement59
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales59
Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior57
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing57
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods57
Development and psychometric testing of the Healthcare Garden Assessment Tool for Evaluators (GATE)57
How perceived campus environments influence college students’ mental health: Mediating roles of campus life experiences56
Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception55
Does Decarbonisation lead to Psychological De-territorialisation? An Emerging Challenge for a Just Transition in Coal and Carbon-Intensive Regions across EU Countries54
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments54
Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework53
What does sustainability sound like? Crafting soundscapes that reflect environmental and social sustainability dimensions52
Eco-anxiety and climate-anxiety linked to indirect exposure: A scoping review of empirical research50
Understanding slow progress on urban climate adaptation: An empirical analysis of behavioural dynamics in Dutch policymaking48
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California48
The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions48
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling45
When trust is good and worrying is even better. Trust in science and climate change specific worries are linked to policy support and pro-environmental behaviours45
The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing45
Insights into eco-anxiety in Italy: Preliminary psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale, age and gender distribution44
GPS use and navigation ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Beyond the human eye: Review of quantitative methods for evaluating facade visual perception43
Recalling Innocence: The cultural significance of childhood memories and moral purity for pro-environmental behavior42
Household crowding during the COVID-19 lockdown fosters anti-democracy even after 17 months: A 5-wave latent growth curve study42
When the means are no dead end: Effects of witnessing direct collective action for traffic transformation41
The impact of a novel multisensory environment on depression, agitation, stress, and sleep among older adults diagnosed with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia41
Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various bluespaces: An electroencephalography study40
Can organizations shape eco-friendly employees? Organizational support improves pro-environmental behaviors at work40
Greater perceived access to green spaces near homes: Safer and more satisfied residents40
Frame by frame, attitude by attitude – The effect of information framing in videos on consumers’ acceptance of sustainable food production innovations39
Toward conceptualizing “place immersion” as a spatial neuropsychosocial phenomenon: A multidisciplinary meta-review and -synthesis39
Mental health and subjective environmental awareness: Individual behavioral, spillover, and intergenerational effects39
Re-examining feelings of responsibility as a predictor of climate belief and worry: A replication across 31 countries39
A call for robust evaluations of the impacts of serious games for climate change mitigation: The Climate Fresk as a global case study39
Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism37
Can an observational training improve the ability of children to navigate in familiar and unfamiliar environments?37
Man or bear? How gender affects experiences of natural environments with varying levels of vegetation density and different danger threats37
From distress to action? – A three-wave longitudinal study of climate change distress, pro-environmental behavior, and coping strategies among Finnish adolescents37
Sniffing the distance: Scents can make objects appear closer37
The influence of physical office environments on physiological stress: A PRISMA systematic scoping review37
The impact of nature in challenging times: Comparing direct and mediated nature experiences for well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic and in palliative care37
Introducing and testing the personal-collective-governmental efficacy typology: How personal, collective, and governmental efficacy subtypes are associated with differential environmental actions36
Time perception in naturalistic and urban immersive virtual reality environments36
Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance35
Children's perception of urban green infrastructure and nature-related digital tools35
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Unpacking the heterogeneity: A global meta-analysis and multidimensional framework for urban green space and mental health35
How student perceptions of stuffy air and unpleasant odour are associated with students’ well-being: Cross-level interaction effects of school climate35
Lighting color temperature impacts effort-related cardiovascular response to an auditory short-term memory task35
Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist35
Reconsidering restorative environments for older adults: How the social context shapes restorative experiences34
Development of a measuring instrument to monitor the biodiversity awareness of the German population34
What is measured in pro-environmental behavior research?34
The impact of the indoor home environment on children's prosocial behaviour34
Are numbers necessary to identify low-emission lifestyles? An experimental study on heuristics and carbon competence34
Is safety a state of mind? Exploring the impact of arousal on pedestrians’ safety appraisals and attentiveness34
Listening through a landline: Using degraded sounds to examine the relationship between cognitive restoration and preference34
Rethinking the nature vs. urban environment dichotomy: Aligning research classifications with human visual perception34
Perceived national wealth increases support for structural climate policies33
The contribution of environmental sensitivity and connectedness to nature to mental health: Does nature view count?33
Positive emotional experiences from nature contact: A thematic analysis on types and regulation pathways33
From attitude to identity? A field experiment on attitude activation, identity formation, and meat reduction33
Testing the cross-cultural invariance of an extended theory of planned behaviour in predicting biodiversity-conserving behavioural intentions33
When do individuals take action to protect the environment?——Exploring the mediating effects of negative impacts of environmental risk33
Differences in preferences for office attributes in hybrid working: Office versus Flexible Workdays33
Associations between the home physical environment and child self-regulation: A conceptual exploration33
Living closer to the beach is associated with better socioemotional development in young boys33
Impact of natural views on mental health during COVID-19 quarantine: A natural experiment33
Passive nature exposure positively predicts prosocial behavior by alleviating perceived crowdedness32
The effect of empathy with nature and humans on conservation behaviour32
Development and validation of the Circular Behaviours Scale: A measure of householder behaviours for a circular economy32
The influence of social exclusion on adolescents' social withdrawal behavior: The moderating role of connectedness to nature32
Mindfulness empowers employees' green performance: The relationship and cross-level mechanisms between green mindfulness leadership and employees’ green behavior32
Effect of natural and artificial surroundings on perceived restorativeness and affective states: Evidence from a satellite image segmentation-based method32
Developing and testing a protocol to systematically assess social interaction with urban outdoor environment32
The influence of spatial dimensions of virtual environments on attitudes and nonverbal behaviors during social interactions32
Restorative effects of daylight in indoor environments – A systematic literature review31
Profiling office workers’ comfort-related adaptive actions: a latent class analysis31
Pro-environmental behaviour, connectedness with nature, and the endorsement of pro-environmental norms in youth: Longitudinal relations31
Well-being and multisensory urban parks at different ages: The role of interoception and audiovisual perception30
I want to, not I have to: The double-edged sword effect of green involvement on employee green creativity30
Environmental education in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
When perception Shapes Reality: A large-scale study of mental health outcomes in polluted and non-polluted environments in China30
The role of environmental identity and individualism/collectivism in predicting climate change denial: Evidence from nine countries30
Perceived neighborhood disorder and fear of crime in Japan: A multilevel analysis of repeated cross-sectional data from 2007 to 201830
Preferred distance from camera for online interactions and its relation with individual differences in pathogen sensitivity29
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Using artificial ground murals to promote restorative sidewalk experiences: Effects of colors and patterns on mood, perceived restorativeness, and heart rate in virtual reality29
Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children29
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Order effects influence the cognitive benefits of nature in a Stroop task29
Why should I? How victim sensitivity affects pro-environmental engagement29
The neuropsychological correlates of urban navigation: A meta-analysis of 27 years of functional neuroimaging studies29
Home environments in an age of precarity28
Beyond the lab: Feasibility of cognitive neuroscience data collection during a speleological expedition28
How could your intention to purchase electric vehicle be stimulated? A behavioral spillover perspective based on pro-environmental attitude-behavior (in)congruence28
Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built environments with disparate road traffic noise exposure: A randomized controlled trial28
Psychological attributes of house facades: A graph network approach in environmental psychology27
The impact of perceived partisanship on climate policy support: A conceptual replication and extension of the temporal framing effect27
Who worries the most? Socioeconomic status, housing material, and eco-anxiety in a developing and climate-vulnerable country27
A social-cognitive model of climate change behavioral adaption in Tonga: Relationships among indigenous knowledge, social media use, norms, values, and spiritual beliefs27
Do conservation and citizenship green behaviors spill over within and between work and nonwork contexts? A longitudinal study27
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 behaviour27
Examining relations between left-wing authoritarianism and environmentalism27
High-income Households—Damned to consume or free to engage in high-impact energy-saving behaviours?27
The restorative effects of nature exposure via virtual reality on well-being, self-control, and working memory26
The emotional influence of different geometries in virtual spaces: A neurocognitive examination26
Stereotypes of pro-environmental people: Perception of competence and warmth26
Awe and adolescents' pro-environmental behavior: the role of nature connectedness and moral identity26
Effects of natural sound on human stress recovery based on EEG techniques26
Effects of an afforestation activity on thermal and mechanical pain mechanisms: A clinical trial25
Cultural shift for pro-environmental behavioural change: Developing and validating the Environmental Culture in Organisations (ECO) scale25
Sense of community and adaptive capacity: Insights from the 2019/2020 Australian ‘Black Summer’ bushfires25
A general explanation for environmental policy support: An example using carbon taxation approval in Germany25
A conservation orientation in commons dilemmas25
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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 wit25
Understimulation resembles overstimulation: Effects on school children's attentional performance, affect, and environmental preference25
Reflections on the paradigm of virtual migration and real-world place attachment25
Effects of the physical environment on children and families in hospital-based emergency departments: A systematic literature review24
The role of nature connectedness in facial dissatisfaction and body appreciation: The mediating effect of appearance-contingent self-worth in a cross-cultural context24
The influence of social context and activity on the emotional well-being of forest visitors: A field study24
Compassion questionnaire for animals: Scale development and validation24
Interrelations between mental and emotional responses to the built environment: Multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis24
Developing a psychological understanding of students’ perceptions of their school environment and the relationship with academic achievement24
Current research practices on pro-environmental behavior: A survey of environmental psychologists24
Narratives of youth climate activism: exploring the diversity of meaning-making on climate change and citizenship24
Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour24
‘It feels smaller now’: The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on apartment residents and their living environment – A longitudinal study23
Reasonable or radical? First-order, second-order, and meta-stereotypes of different climate activists among the German public and climate activists23
A review of the application of EEG signals in the study of thermal comfort23
A systematic review of environmental identity: Definitions, measurement tools, and future directions23
How do we motivate farmers to adopt low-carbon production? Analysis of extrinsic incentives’ internalization22
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Comparative study on birdsong and its multi-sensory combinational effects on physio-psychological restoration22
Adverse relations between substandard housing and self-regulation are accentuated for children with difficult temperament22
The commodification of nature: How virtual nature could reinforce environmental generational amnesia22
Present generation’s negotiators realize their interests at the cost of future generations22
Field experiments on reducing food waste: Separating the effects of imperative and descriptive norm messaging22
Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans22
Transient decreases in blood pressure and heart rate with increased subjective level of relaxation while viewing water compared with adjacent ground22
Switching between body and environment: The selective effect of spatial misalignment22
Special issue editorial: The psychology of home environment for specific populations and times21
Affective responses to urban but not to natural scenes depend on inter-individual differences in childhood nature exposure21
Sacrificing for the environment: The role of nonzero-sum beliefs21
Orientation behavior in men and women: The relationship between gender stereotype, growth mindset, and spatial self-efficacy21
Feelings of safety for visitors recreating outdoors at night in different artificial lighting conditions21
Factor structure, measurement equivalence, and reliability of the Nature Relatedness Scale Short Form (NR-6) across males and females21
The moderating effect of place attachment on visitors’ trust and support for recreational fees in national parks21
Physical and mental health impacts of housing improvement: A quasi-experimental evaluation of in-situ slum redevelopment in India21
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 study21
Psychophysiological recovery from viewing nature and urban settings: A multisite replication20
The Gateway Belief Model: A pre-registered large-scale replication in China20
Determining social-psychological drivers of Texas Gulf Coast homeowners’ intention to implement private green infrastructure practices20
It is just wrong: Moral foundations and food waste20
Shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection amongst university students20
Effects of greenspace interventions on mental disorders - a systematic review and meta-analysis20
Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: Results from the Berlin aging study20
When nature competes: Rewarding nature experiences can undermine prosocial and pro-environmental behavior20
Corrigendum to “Why do people embrace renewable and sustainable energy technologies for mitigation and geoengineering for adaptation? Explore norms, emotions, and attitudes driving social acceptance” 20
Do economic preferences and personality traits influence fertilizer use? Evidence from rice farmers in eastern China20
Nostalgia promotes pro-environmental orientation and behavior via longing for the past nature and nature connectedness20
Explaining support for environmental public policies through the value-belief-norm theory: A systematic review with meta-analysis20
Enhancing perceived effectiveness can increase climate policy acceptance20
The Environmental Decision Task: A new behavioral paradigm for studying the money-environment trade-off19
Dynamic norm perceptions and meat consumption: the moderating role of meat-related intrapersonal psychological factors19
Anticipating the Storm: Expectations (not experience) of extreme weather predict public support for climate policies19
Data from 88 countries reveal international predictors of climate activism19
Eye-tracking research on climate change communication: A systematic review19
Let's talk about climate change: How immersive media experiences stimulate climate conversations19
Affordances for deaf and hard of hearing students’ social participation in mainstream school environments19
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When science isn't beautiful: Lab aesthetics impact reaction times and reactive cognitive control19
Greater perceived fossil fuel reliance predicts lower support for systemic climate policies19
Effect of nature-based interventions on depressive symptoms and cognitive functions in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis18
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The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework18
Urban environment and complexity of walking routes in mid-aged and older adults: the moderating effects of cognitive abilities18
Curvilinear relationship between climate advocates’ word-deed consistency and public willingness to follow18
Supporting and expressing support for environmental policies18
Visualising and understanding human evaluation of house facades: GAN applied to environmental psychology18
Think green: Investing cognitive effort for a pro-environmental cause18
Pro-environmental behavior in a common-resource dilemma: The role of beliefs18
Trade-off, parallel, or independent? Profiles of ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes as insight into their relationship18
Perceived distributive fairness and public acceptance of a policy mandating on-site wastewater treatment and reuse18
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]18
Immersion in nature decreases neural sensitivity to extrinsic reward18
Climate adaptation self-efficacy is positively associated with subjective well-being: Evidence from 26 countries18
Boosting neighbourhood identification to benefit wellbeing: Evidence from diverse community samples17
Green Meal? The role of situational contexts for real-time vegetarian Meal choices17
The effectiveness of health belief model in predicting intentions for environmentally sustainable behavior: A meta-analysis17
The effects of synchrony on spatial cue choice in a virtual wayfinding task17
Mindfulness disposition as a protective factor against stress in Antarctica: A potential countermeasure for long-duration spaceflight?17
The value of multi-proxy experiments to study pro-environmental behavior17
Intergenerational pathway to nature connectedness17
How to visualize the spatial uncertainty of landmark representations in maps?17
Nature connectedness and well-being: Evidence from a multi-national investigation across 75 countries17
Climate change mitigation: A question of humanitarian or environmental motivation?17
Would you put your sustainability on display? Preferences for the visibility of sustainable household energy measures in the Netherlands17
A decade of weather anomalies and natural disasters and their influence on environmental beliefs and actions across Australia17
Defining socio-spatial comfort in offices17
The impact of rural public spaces on place attachment in older adults16
Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis16
Consensus messaging in climate change communication: Metacognition as moderator variable in the gateway belief model16
The parental perspective of residential environments associated with children's self-regulation16
Visions of Tomorrow: Emotional drivers of climate change mitigation and adaptation intentions16
How spatial configuration shapes memory and cognitive load: A behavioural and EEG study of simultaneous spatial and associative memory16
Disrupted self-perspective impact on episodic memory in individuals with self-disorders: A virtual investigation in the Latin Quarter of Paris16
The role of information source in climate beliefs, behavioral commitments, and policy preferences16
The impact of built and natural environments on working memory - A systematic literature review16
The psychological effects of lacking physical space: A systematic literature review16
Climate change and health risk perception in India: A replication of the climate change risk perception model16
Towards a multi-theory understanding of the salutogenic potential of landscapes16
Natural soundscapes are associated with mental well-being via capacity-building and capacity-restoring pathways16
Engaging through enraging: Does inciting anger about climate change increase support for climate action?16
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The role of lay beliefs about willpower and daily demands in day-to-day pro-environmental behavior16
Beyond Warmth: Competence Outweighs Warmth in the Nature–Urban Stereotype System16
Nature experience and well-being: Bird watching as an intervention in nursing homes to maintain cognitive resources, mobility, and biopsychosocial health16
Improving navigational skills throughout the lifespan: a systematic review on training in healthy population15
Strengthening climate action through career aspirations: A life-course perspective on circular citizenship behaviours15
How attractive is sustainability in products: A Systematic Review about eye-tracking studies on sustainability labels15
Ecospiritual relationality as a third pathway: Expanding religious environmental psychology beyond stewardship and determinism15
Workplace barriers to time outdoors in nature to support staff well-being: A comparative case study15
Long-term effects of social norm interventions on pro-environmental behaviours: A systematic review and meta-analysis15
Beyond blue-sky thinking: Diurnal patterns and ephemeral meteorological phenomena impact appraisals of beauty, awe, and value in urban and natural landscapes15
Relaxing effects of virtual environments on the autonomic nervous system indicated by heart rate variability: A systematic review15
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