Journal of Environmental Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Characteristics of Physical Environments That Enhance Learning: A Systematic Review of EEG-Based Empirical Studies164
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How far can we get with eco driving tech?148
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Determining social-psychological drivers of Texas Gulf Coast homeowners’ intention to implement private green infrastructure practices96
Effects of conventional and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on driving abilities: A tDCS-driving simulator study95
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The burden of climate action: How environmental responsibility is impacted by socioeconomic status77
Finding the shortest path in a familiar environment: A comparison between describing and walking a path after accounting for the role of individual factors72
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic69
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?65
Anthropause appreciation, biophilia, and ecophilosophical contemplations amidst a global pandemic65
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Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks64
Initial evidence for a systematic link between core values and emotional experiences in environmental situations64
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The roots of ecological dominance orientation: Assessing individual preferences for an anthropocentric and hierarchically organized world61
Emotional researchers or emotional audiences? The effect of emotions in climate change communication60
Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach51
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Relationship between housing damage and serum cortisol among survivors of the 2011 tsunami disaster48
Capturing the well-being exposome in poly-environmental scores.45
What psychology can tell us about the cultural effects of climate change44
Psychometric properties of the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS-13) and the prediction of pro-environmental behavior43
“Nature is mine/ours”: Measuring individual and collective psychological ownership of nature42
The influence of disclosing product lifecycle carbon footprint information on consumer purchase intentions based on the APE model perspective: An ERP and questionnaire study41
Psychological and physiological effects of a wooden office room on human well-being: Results from a randomized controlled trial41
Don't bug me!: The role of names, functions, and feelings in shaping children's and adults' conservation attitudes about unappealing species41
Perceived carbon pricing effectiveness impacts its perceived fairness – Applying and extending a theoretical framework41
Gardening and cognitive ageing: Longitudinal findings from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 192140
Route learning in patients with schizophrenia: The role of the forward testing effect39
Publishing in the Journal of Environmental Psychology: Priorities and Insights from the new Editors-in-Chief38
Ocean imagery relates to an individual's cognitions and pro-environmental behaviours38
Experience or attribution? Exploring the relationship between personal experience, political affiliation, and subjective attributions with mitigation behavioural intentions and COVID-19 recovery polic37
Love for the globe but also the country matter for the environment: Links between nationalistic, patriotic, global identification and pro-environmentalism36
Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior36
Climate change and depressive disorders in middle-aged and older people in China: A quasi-experimental study36
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros36
Development of an objective measure of knowledge of plastic recycling: The outcomes of plastic recycling knowledge scale (OPRKS)36
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales35
Children's preferences on the move: Establishing the characteristics of unofficial paths and their benefits for children's physical play in Australian primary school grounds33
How do schoolchildren perceive litter? Overlooked in urban but not in natural environments33
Climate adaptation and climate mitigation do not undermine each other: A cross-cultural test in four countries32
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change32
What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study31
Evidence gap: Data from clinical contexts needed to better support youth experiencing the mental health impacts of climate change31
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods29
Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic29
Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance28
The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework28
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment28
An unpredictable environment reduces pro-environmental behavior: A dynamic public goods experiment on forest use28
Pro-environmental behavior in a common-resource dilemma: The role of beliefs28
Nature as community: An overlooked predictor of pro-environmental intentions28
Which is primary: Preference or perceived instoration?27
Perceived distributive fairness and public acceptance of a policy mandating on-site wastewater treatment and reuse27
Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception27
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing27
Clarifying longitudinal relations between individuals' support for human rights and climate change beliefs26
Clarifying the nature of the association between eco-anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour26
Predictors of hurricane evacuation decisions: A meta-analysis26
The role of place attachment and spatial anxiety in environmental knowledge25
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression25
Does place visualisation increase household preparedness for natural hazard events? A longitudinal intervention25
Environmental light exposure, rest-activity rhythms, and symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity: An observational study of Australian preschoolers25
Place attachment buffers against the effect of perceived discrimination on psychological distress in Chinese migrant children: A two-wave longitudinal study25
Homes in flux: Evaluating personal and social dynamics amid urban variability and mass-produced prototype housing25
Gratitude letters to nature: Effects on self-nature representations and pro-environmental behavioral intentions25
Exposure and connectedness to natural environments: An examination of the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) and Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) across 65 nations, 40 langua24
The influence of environmental context on spatial learning. Openness of the environment and spatial mental representations in the city of Venice24
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity24
Who commits to the community? Person-community fit, place attachment, and participation in local Japanese communities24
Good city and nice people: The impact of the perceived built environment on prosocial tendencies, flourishing, depression, and anxiety24
Antecedents of environmental values and pro-environmental behavior intentions: A self-determination theory approach24
When your shop says #lessismore. Online communication interventions for clothing sufficiency24
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?24
Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing24
How does VR differ from renderings in human perception of office layout design? A quantitative evaluation of a full-scale immersive VR24
Regulate me! Self-control dissatisfaction in meat reduction success relates to stronger support for behavior-regulating policy24
Examining the (non-linear) relationships between climate change anxiety, information seeking, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions24
Nature experiences and pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial24
Do people's assumptions about the social world matter? The effects of social axioms on environmental attitude and efficacy beliefs23
Theory enhances impact. Reply to: ‘The case for impact-focused environmental psychology’23
Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale23
In search of weakened resolve: Does climate-engineering awareness decrease individuals’ commitment to mitigation?23
Polarization within consensus? An audience segmentation model of politically dependent climate attitudes in Denmark23
Short virtual nature breaks in the office environment can restore stress: An experimental study23
Comparing the effect of mindful and other engagement interventions in nature on attention restoration, nature connection, and mood22
Landmark-based navigation instructions improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition in real-world environments22
The personal and the social: Twin contributors to climate action22
Does meditation training promote pro-environmental behavior? A cross-sectional comparison and a randomized controlled trial22
Test-retest reliability and construct validity of the Pro-Environmental Behavior Task22
Implementing an activity-based work environment: A longitudinal view of the effects on privacy and psychological ownership22
The effect of environmental versus social framing on pro-environmental behavior21
Social influence and reduction of animal protein consumption among young adults: Insights from a socio-psychological model21
From childhood blue space exposure to adult environmentalism: The role of nature connectedness and nature contact21
Doing laundry with biodegradable soap nuts: Can rare and novel behaviors break bad habitual patterns?21
Effects of framing, nomenclature, and aversion to tampering with nature on consumer acceptance of cultivated meat in Singapore21
Supporting and expressing support for environmental policies20
Here I belong!: Understanding immigrant descendants’ place attachment and its impact on their community citizenship behaviors in China20
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments20
The relationship between identity and environmental concern: A meta-analysis20
Positive affect and natural landscape in virtual reality: A systematic review comparing interventions, measures, and outcomes20
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale20
Form and color visual perception in green exercise: Positive effects on attention, mood, and self-esteem20
Navigation ability in young, middle-aged and older adults: Different domains of knowledge and their relationship with visuospatial factors19
Climate-change worry among two cohorts of late adolescents: Exploring macro and micro worries, coping, and relations to climate engagement, pessimism, and well-being19
The restorative effects of mental imagery of nature: A study on subjective and physiological responses19
Acute stress effects of impulsive noise during mental work19
Does belief in climate change conspiracy theories predict everyday life pro-environmental behaviors? Testing the longitudinal relationship in China and the U.S.19
A goal-discrepancy account of restorative nature experiences19
Spatial generalization in sketch maps: A systematic classification19
Intergenerational transmission of environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behavior: A dyadic relationship18
Moral hazards and solar radiation management: Evidence from a large-scale online experiment18
Toward a better understanding of environmental concern as a belief system: The lens of network psychometrics18
The symmetry and asymmetry of pedestrian route choice18
Insights into eco-anxiety in Italy: Preliminary psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale, age and gender distribution18
On how natural and urban soundscapes alter brain activity during cognitive performance18
Parental factors affecting children's nature connectedness18
Different names for “natural gas” influence public perception of it18
Profiles of perceived physical features and emotional experiences in favorite places: Discovering ambivalent place preferences18
Give qualitative research the recognition it deserves18
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Situation networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences18
Global climate marches sharply raise attention to climate change: Analysis of climate search behavior in 46 countries18
Time perception in naturalistic and urban immersive virtual reality environments17
Rounded or angular? How the physical work environment in makerspaces influences makers’ creativity17
The impact of nature-based solutions on perceptions of safety in public space17
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California17
Introducing and testing the personal-collective-governmental efficacy typology: How personal, collective, and governmental efficacy subtypes are associated with differential environmental actions16
Explaining the difference between the predictive power of value orientations and self-determined motivation for proenvironmental behavior16
Magical contagion and commemorative plaques: Effects of celebrity occupancy on property values16
See or Be? Contact with nature and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown16
The use of virtual reality in environment experiences and the importance of realism16
Effects of COVID-19-related stay-at-home order on neuropsychophysiological response to urban spaces: Beneficial role of exposure to nature?16
Making theory useful for understanding high-impact behavior. A response to van Valkengoed et al. (2021)16
Can organizations shape eco-friendly employees? Organizational support improves pro-environmental behaviors at work16
Psychological responses to buildings and natural landscapes16
Effects of nature-based intervention in the treatment of depression: A multi-center, randomized controlled trial15
Important to me and my society: How culture influences the roles of personal values and perceived group values in environmental engagements via collectivistic orientation15
Drop some money! The influence of income and subjective financial scarcity on pro-environmental behaviour15
Think green: Investing cognitive effort for a pro-environmental cause15
Time in nature is associated with higher levels of positive mood: Evidence from the 2023 NatureDose™ student survey15
Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance15
Problem awareness does not predict littering: A field study on littering in the Gambia14
Water bottles or tap water? A descriptive-social-norm based intervention to increase a pro-environmental behavior in a restaurant14
Nature experience and well-being: Bird watching as an intervention in nursing homes to maintain cognitive resources, mobility, and biopsychosocial health14
Do past-focused environmental messages promote pro-environmentalism to conservatives? A pre-registered replication14
Connectedness to nature promotes downplaying others’ humanity among anxiously attached people14
Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various bluespaces: An electroencephalography study14
Nature deficit and mental health among adolescents: A perspectives of conservation of resources theory14
Cultivating connectedness: Effects of an app-based compassion meditation course on changes in global identity, nature connectedness, and pro-environmental behaviour13
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling13
The development of the zero-sum beliefs between nature and humanity scale13
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Food for future: The impact of menu design on vegetarian food choice and menu satisfaction in a hypothetical hospital setting13
“It was like I was not a person, it was like I was the nature”: The impact of arts-in-nature experiences on the wellbeing of children living in areas of high deprivation13
Increasing retrofit device adoption in social housing: Evidence from two field experiments in Belgium13
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From oppressiveness to stress: A development of Stress Reduction Theory in the context of contemporary high-density city13
The multidimensionality of place identity: A systematic concept analysis and framework of place-related identity elements13
Structural deviations drive an uncanny valley of physical places13
The effect of collaboration on farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors – A systematic review13
Teachers as agents of environmental literacy and the facilitating role of environmental psychologists13
Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples12
Priming the public to construct preferences for sustainable design: A discrete choice model for green infrastructure12
On the importance of solidarity for transforming social systems towards sustainability12
Regulatory focus and self-licensing dynamics: A motivational account of behavioural consistency and balancing12
Household crowding during the COVID-19 lockdown fosters anti-democracy even after 17 months: A 5-wave latent growth curve study12
Aversion to loss of place: The endowment effect for local facilities12
Boosting neighbourhood identification to benefit wellbeing: Evidence from diverse community samples12
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Sniffing the distance: Scents can make objects appear closer12
Mindfulness disposition as a protective factor against stress in Antarctica: A potential countermeasure for long-duration spaceflight?11
Let's stay together – The mediating role of self-congruity and place attachment on residents' likelihood to stay11
Beyond built density: From coarse to fine-grained analyses of emotional experiences in urban environments11
The concerned steward effect: Exploring the relationship between climate anxiety, psychological distress, and self-reported climate related behavioural engagement11
Burglars’ choice of intrusion routes: A virtual reality experimental study11
Effects of virtual agent interactivity on pro-environmental behavior promotion11
Space at home and psychological distress during the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy11
Come in please: a virtual reality study on entrance design factors influencing the experience of hospitality11
Acting as we feel: Which emotional responses to the climate crisis motivate climate action11
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 privacy11
Natural environments, psychosocial health, and health behaviors in a crisis – A scoping review of the literature in the COVID-19 context11
Is green the new sexy? Romantic of conspicuous conservation11
Menu design approaches to promote sustainable vegetarian food choices when dining out11
Re-examining feelings of responsibility as a predictor of climate belief and worry: A replication across 31 countries11
Perceptions of climate change threat across 121 nations: The role of individual and national wealth11
Keep Degrowth or go Rebirth? Regulatory focus theory and the support for a sustainable downscaling of production and consumption11
A meta-analysis of the association of aircraft noise at school on children's reading comprehension and psychological health for use in health impact assessment11
Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.11
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The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing10
Pre-registered replication of the gateway belief model – Results from a representative German sample10
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 students10
Botanical priming helps overcome plant blindness on a memory task10
Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action10
Does environmental psychology afford an “effective context” for the study of structural racism?10
My home is my new office: The relationship between environmental comfort, workplace attachment, and psychological needs in the context of remote working10
Interventions promoting pro-environmental behaviors in children: A meta-analysis and a research agenda10
Give it a Try! How electric vehicle test drives influence symbolism perceptions and adoption intent10
Conceptual replication study and meta-analysis suggest simulated nature does not reliably restore pure executive attention measured by the attention network task10
How to attract employees back to the office? A stated choice study on hybrid working preferences10
Climate change mitigation: A question of humanitarian or environmental motivation?10
Exploring psychological restoration in favorite indoor and outdoor urban places using a top-down perspective10
Sex and the city park: The role of gender and sex in psychological restoration in urban greenspaces10
Navigating the divided city: Place identity and the time-geography of segregation10
Discounting environmental policy: The effects of psychological distance over time and space10
Climate anxiety: What predicts it and how is it related to climate action?10
Words not deeds: National narcissism, national identification, and support for greenwashing versus genuine proenvironmental campaigns10
Eco-anxiety and climate-anxiety linked to indirect exposure: A scoping review of empirical research9
Implicit reminders of reputation and nature reduce littering more than explicit information on injunctive norms and monetary costs9
Development and validation of the domain-specific climate change distress scale9
Policy attributes, perceived impacts, and climate change policy preferences9
The ability to choose how to interact with other people in the park space and its role in terms of perceived safety and preference9
The mediating role of residential time perspective between regional decline and place attachment9
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Green Meal? The role of situational contexts for real-time vegetarian Meal choices9
Longitudinal relationship between long-distance commuting willingness and behavior: Evidence from European data9
Frame by frame, attitude by attitude – The effect of information framing in videos on consumers’ acceptance of sustainable food production innovations9
Satisfaction with activity-support and physical home-workspace characteristics in relation to mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic9
How to visualize the spatial uncertainty of landmark representations in maps?9
GPS use and navigation ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis9
Effects of social position and household affordances on COVID-19 lockdown resilience and coping9
Shifting landscapes: Women's experiences of socio-cultural changes from in-situ redevelopment in Ahmedabad9
Hotter weather, less of a hoax? Testing the longitudinal association between experience of temperature anomalies and belief in climate change conspiracy theories9
Is the political divide on climate change narrower for people of color? Evidence from a decade of U.S. polling9
Anger consensus messaging can enhance expectations for collective action and support for climate mitigation9
Different types of virtual natural environments enhance subjective vitality through restorativeness9
Independent mobility and outdoor play time: Insights from urban informal settlements in India9
On the importance of qualitative research in environmental psychology -- response to9
The effects of synchrony on spatial cue choice in a virtual wayfinding task9
Can an observational training improve the ability of children to navigate in familiar and unfamiliar environments?9
Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis8
Greater perceived access to green spaces near homes: Safer and more satisfied residents8
East-West beliefs challenged by North-South evidence about collectivism versus individualism8
Episodic memory and self-reference in a naturalistic context: New insights based on a virtual walk in the Latin Quarter of Paris8
The various forms of anger about climate change in Australia and their relations with self-reported actions, intentions, and distress8
The influence of spatial dimensions of virtual environments on attitudes and nonverbal behaviors during social interactions8
Simulated nature walks improve psychological well-being along a natural to urban continuum8
Psychological well-being and demographic factors can mediate soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness: A large sample study8
The value of multi-proxy experiments to study pro-environmental behavior8
Ecospirituality: The psychology of moral concern for nature8
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]8
Mechanisms underlying childhood exposure to blue spaces and adult subjective well-being: An 18-country analysis8
Toward conceptualizing “place immersion” as a spatial neuropsychosocial phenomenon: A multidisciplinary meta-review and -synthesis8
Intrinsic functional connectivity correlates of pro-environmentalism8
Horticultural interventions may reduce adults’ depressive symptoms: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials8
Relaxing effects of virtual environments on the autonomic nervous system indicated by heart rate variability: A systematic review8
Psychological needs in the built environment8
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