Journal of Environmental Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 13. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Political differences in climate change knowledge and their association with climate attitudes, behavior, and policy support341
The impact of war-induced relocation on sense of place: Examining its moderating role between event severity and psychological symptomatology258
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression133
Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach116
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Development and psychometric testing of the Healthcare Garden Assessment Tool for Evaluators (GATE)91
Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic91
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?90
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic82
Of sunsets, stars, and rainbows: Embracing the sky in restoration research74
How perceived campus environments influence college students’ mental health: Mediating roles of campus life experiences73
Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework71
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment68
Environmental framing and left-wing political orientation promote sustainability in a US-based common-pool resource dilemma68
Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance67
Spillover from general and specific pro-environmental behavior to climate-friendly choices and policy Acceptance: The mediating role of psychological engagement66
How climate justice beliefs motivate youth climate action: Distinct longitudinal emotional pathways and qualitative evidence from a climate-vulnerable and non-Western context66
Does decarbonisation lead to psychological De-territorialisation? An emerging challenge for a just transition in coal and carbon-intensive regions across EU countries66
What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study62
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change60
Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception58
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods56
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale55
Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale53
How self-efficacy and response efficacy change with risk and adaptation behaviors during tropical cyclones53
Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks51
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?51
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments49
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing48
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros48
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity48
Characteristics of physical environments that enhance learning: A systematic review of EEG-Based empirical studies47
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling45
The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing45
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California45
Recalling Innocence: The cultural significance of childhood memories and moral purity for pro-environmental behavior44
The impact of a novel multisensory environment on depression, agitation, stress, and sleep among older adults diagnosed with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia44
Mental health and subjective environmental awareness: Individual behavioral, spillover, and intergenerational effects43
A call for robust evaluations of the impacts of serious games for climate change mitigation: The Climate Fresk as a global case study43
Man or bear? How gender affects experiences of natural environments with varying levels of vegetation density and different danger threats43
When the means are no dead end: Effects of witnessing direct collective action for traffic transformation43
The impact of nature in challenging times: Comparing direct and mediated nature experiences for well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic and in palliative care42
Sniffing the distance: Scents can make objects appear closer41
Can an observational training improve the ability of children to navigate in familiar and unfamiliar environments?41
The influence of physical office environments on physiological stress: A PRISMA systematic scoping review40
GPS use and navigation ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
Household crowding during the COVID-19 lockdown fosters anti-democracy even after 17 months: A 5-wave latent growth curve study40
Beyond the human eye: Review of quantitative methods for evaluating facade visual perception40
Understanding slow progress on urban climate adaptation: An empirical analysis of behavioural dynamics in Dutch policymaking40
From distress to action? – A three-wave longitudinal study of climate change distress, pro-environmental behavior, and coping strategies among Finnish adolescents40
Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance40
Time perception in naturalistic and urban immersive virtual reality environments40
Re-examining feelings of responsibility as a predictor of climate belief and worry: A replication across 31 countries40
How induced controllability affects climate change risk perception and learned helplessness40
Greater perceived access to green spaces near homes: Safer and more satisfied residents39
What does sustainability sound like? Crafting soundscapes that reflect environmental and social sustainability dimensions38
Unpacking the heterogeneity: A global meta-analysis and multidimensional framework for urban green space and mental health38
Insights into eco-anxiety in Italy: Preliminary psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale, age and gender distribution38
The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions38
Eco-anxiety and climate-anxiety linked to indirect exposure: A scoping review of empirical research38
Frame by frame, attitude by attitude – The effect of information framing in videos on consumers’ acceptance of sustainable food production innovations38
Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various bluespaces: An electroencephalography study38
Introducing and testing the personal-collective-governmental efficacy typology: How personal, collective, and governmental efficacy subtypes are associated with differential environmental actions38
Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism37
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 behaviours37
Can organizations shape eco-friendly employees? Organizational support improves pro-environmental behaviors at work36
Reconsidering restorative environments for older adults: How the social context shapes restorative experiences36
Well-being and multisensory urban parks at different ages: The role of interoception and audiovisual perception36
The effect of empathy with nature and humans on conservation behaviour36
Development and validation of the Circular Behaviours Scale: A measure of householder behaviours for a circular economy36
The role of color and Voronoi patterns on wayfinding performance and anxiety in a virtual healthcare environment36
The influence of social exclusion on adolescents' social withdrawal behavior: The moderating role of connectedness to nature36
Associations between the home physical environment and child self-regulation: A conceptual exploration35
Living closer to the beach is associated with better socioemotional development in young boys35
Differences in preferences for office attributes in hybrid working: Office versus Flexible Workdays35
How student perceptions of stuffy air and unpleasant odour are associated with students’ well-being: Cross-level interaction effects of school climate35
Effect of natural and artificial surroundings on perceived restorativeness and affective states: Evidence from a satellite image segmentation-based method35
Pro-environmental behaviour, connectedness with nature, and the endorsement of pro-environmental norms in youth: Longitudinal relations35
Development of a measuring instrument to monitor the biodiversity awareness of the German population34
Are numbers necessary to identify low-emission lifestyles? An experimental study on heuristics and carbon competence34
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Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist34
Is safety a state of mind? Exploring the impact of arousal on pedestrians’ safety appraisals and attentiveness34
Passive nature exposure positively predicts prosocial behavior by alleviating perceived crowdedness34
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
When do individuals take action to protect the environment?——Exploring the mediating effects of negative impacts of environmental risk32
Testing the cross-cultural invariance of an extended theory of planned behaviour in predicting biodiversity-conserving behavioural intentions32
Mindfulness empowers employees' green performance: The relationship and cross-level mechanisms between green mindfulness leadership and employees’ green behavior32
Perceived national wealth increases support for structural climate policies31
Profiling office workers’ comfort-related adaptive actions: a latent class analysis31
The impact of the indoor home environment on children's prosocial behaviour31
Impact of natural views on mental health during COVID-19 quarantine: A natural experiment31
I want to, not I have to: The double-edged sword effect of green involvement on employee green creativity31
Children's perception of urban green infrastructure and nature-related digital tools31
The influence of spatial dimensions of virtual environments on attitudes and nonverbal behaviors during social interactions31
Listening through a landline: Using degraded sounds to examine the relationship between cognitive restoration and preference31
Lighting color temperature impacts effort-related cardiovascular response to an auditory short-term memory task30
Coping with the climate crisis: Text-derived coping profiles reveal a tension between burden, engagement, and mental well-being in four countries30
From attitude to identity? A field experiment on attitude activation, identity formation, and meat reduction30
When perception Shapes Reality: A large-scale study of mental health outcomes in polluted and non-polluted environments in China30
A quantitative assessment of barriers to adopting the sustainable Mediterranean diet30
What is measured in pro-environmental behavior research?30
Restorative effects of daylight in indoor environments – A systematic literature review30
Rethinking the nature vs. urban environment dichotomy: Aligning research classifications with human visual perception30
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The role of environmental identity and individualism/collectivism in predicting climate change denial: Evidence from nine countries29
Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children29
Developing and testing a protocol to systematically assess social interaction with urban outdoor environment29
Perceived neighborhood disorder and fear of crime in Japan: A multilevel analysis of repeated cross-sectional data from 2007 to 201829
Environmental education in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis29
Preferred distance from camera for online interactions and its relation with individual differences in pathogen sensitivity28
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The restorative effects of nature exposure via virtual reality on well-being, self-control, and working memory27
The neuropsychological correlates of urban navigation: A meta-analysis of 27 years of functional neuroimaging studies27
A social-cognitive model of climate change behavioral adaption in Tonga: Relationships among indigenous knowledge, social media use, norms, values, and spiritual beliefs27
Beyond the lab: Feasibility of cognitive neuroscience data collection during a speleological expedition27
Stereotypes of pro-environmental people: Perception of competence and warmth27
Order effects influence the cognitive benefits of nature in a Stroop task27
Home environments in an age of precarity26
Psychological attributes of house facades: A graph network approach in environmental psychology26
Why should I? How victim sensitivity affects pro-environmental engagement26
Examining relations between left-wing authoritarianism and environmentalism26
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 behaviour26
Who worries the most? Socioeconomic status, housing material, and eco-anxiety in a developing and climate-vulnerable country26
The impact of perceived partisanship on climate policy support: A conceptual replication and extension of the temporal framing effect26
Understimulation resembles overstimulation: Effects on school children's attentional performance, affect, and environmental preference25
Effects of natural sound on human stress recovery based on EEG techniques25
High-income Households—Damned to consume or free to engage in high-impact energy-saving behaviours?25
Awe and adolescents' pro-environmental behavior: the role of nature connectedness and moral identity25
Do conservation and citizenship green behaviors spill over within and between work and nonwork contexts? A longitudinal study25
How could your intention to purchase electric vehicle be stimulated? A behavioral spillover perspective based on pro-environmental attitude-behavior (in)congruence25
A general explanation for environmental policy support: An example using carbon taxation approval in Germany25
Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built environments with disparate road traffic noise exposure: A randomized controlled trial25
Using artificial ground murals to promote restorative sidewalk experiences: Effects of colors and patterns on mood, perceived restorativeness, and heart rate in virtual reality25
A conservation orientation in commons dilemmas24
The role of nature connectedness in facial dissatisfaction and body appreciation: The mediating effect of appearance-contingent self-worth in a cross-cultural context24
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 wit24
Cultural shift for pro-environmental behavioural change: Developing and validating the Environmental Culture in Organisations (ECO) scale24
Reflections on the paradigm of virtual migration and real-world place attachment24
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Sense of community and adaptive capacity: Insights from the 2019/2020 Australian ‘Black Summer’ bushfires24
A review of the application of EEG signals in the study of thermal comfort23
The influence of social context and activity on the emotional well-being of forest visitors: A field study23
Effects of an afforestation activity on thermal and mechanical pain mechanisms: A clinical trial23
Comparative study on birdsong and its multi-sensory combinational effects on physio-psychological restoration23
Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour23
Interrelations between mental and emotional responses to the built environment: Multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis23
Compassion questionnaire for animals: Scale development and validation23
Narratives of youth climate activism: exploring the diversity of meaning-making on climate change and citizenship23
Reasonable or radical? First-order, second-order, and meta-stereotypes of different climate activists among the German public and climate activists22
A systematic review of environmental identity: Definitions, measurement tools, and future directions22
Developing a psychological understanding of students’ perceptions of their school environment and the relationship with academic achievement22
Present generation’s negotiators realize their interests at the cost of future generations21
Current research practices on pro-environmental behavior: A survey of environmental psychologists21
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‘It feels smaller now’: The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on apartment residents and their living environment – A longitudinal study21
Effects of the physical environment on children and families in hospital-based emergency departments: A systematic literature review21
Switching between body and environment: The selective effect of spatial misalignment21
Special issue editorial: The psychology of home environment for specific populations and times20
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 study20
Nostalgia promotes pro-environmental orientation and behavior via longing for the past nature and nature connectedness20
Adverse relations between substandard housing and self-regulation are accentuated for children with difficult temperament20
When nature competes: Rewarding nature experiences can undermine prosocial and pro-environmental behavior20
Orientation behavior in men and women: The relationship between gender stereotype, growth mindset, and spatial self-efficacy20
Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: Results from the Berlin aging study20
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Psychophysiological recovery from viewing nature and urban settings: A multisite replication20
The Gateway Belief Model: A pre-registered large-scale replication in China20
The moderating effect of place attachment on visitors’ trust and support for recreational fees in national parks20
The commodification of nature: How virtual nature could reinforce environmental generational amnesia20
Sacrificing for the environment: The role of nonzero-sum beliefs20
Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans20
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
It is just wrong: Moral foundations and food waste19
Field experiments on reducing food waste: Separating the effects of imperative and descriptive norm messaging19
How do we motivate farmers to adopt low-carbon production? Analysis of extrinsic incentives’ internalization19
Factor structure, measurement equivalence, and reliability of the Nature Relatedness Scale Short Form (NR-6) across males and females19
Enhancing perceived effectiveness can increase climate policy acceptance19
Climate change concerns and perceived intergenerational mobility19
Do economic preferences and personality traits influence fertilizer use? Evidence from rice farmers in eastern China19
Explaining support for environmental public policies through the value-belief-norm theory: A systematic review with meta-analysis19
Effects of greenspace interventions on mental disorders - a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection amongst university students19
Nature connectedness in the family context: A systematic scoping review19
Determining social-psychological drivers of Texas Gulf Coast homeowners’ intention to implement private green infrastructure practices19
Physical and mental health impacts of housing improvement: A quasi-experimental evaluation of in-situ slum redevelopment in India19
Affective responses to urban but not to natural scenes depend on inter-individual differences in childhood nature exposure19
Feelings of safety for visitors recreating outdoors at night in different artificial lighting conditions19
Effects of Spatial Anxiety on Orientation in a virtual building19
Trade-off, parallel, or independent? Profiles of ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes as insight into their relationship18
Climate adaptation self-efficacy is positively associated with subjective well-being: Evidence from 26 countries18
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Curvilinear relationship between climate advocates’ word-deed consistency and public willingness to follow18
Anticipating the Storm: Expectations (not experience) of extreme weather predict public support for climate policies18
Dynamic norm perceptions and meat consumption: the moderating role of meat-related intrapersonal psychological factors18
Effect of nature-based interventions on depressive symptoms and cognitive functions in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis18
The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework18
When science isn't beautiful: Lab aesthetics impact reaction times and reactive cognitive control17
Greater perceived fossil fuel reliance predicts lower support for systemic climate policies17
Affordances for deaf and hard of hearing students’ social participation in mainstream school environments17
Climate change mitigation: A question of humanitarian or environmental motivation?17
Data from 88 countries reveal international predictors of climate activism17
Supporting and expressing support for environmental policies17
Let's talk about climate change: How immersive media experiences stimulate climate conversations17
Defining socio-spatial comfort in offices17
Corrigendum to “The role of perceived restorative, authenticity, and destination image in place attachment with nature-based destinations: A meta-analysis” [Journal of Environmental Psychology (2025) 17
The Environmental Decision Task: A new behavioral paradigm for studying the money-environment trade-off17
Perceived distributive fairness and public acceptance of a policy mandating on-site wastewater treatment and reuse17
Eye-tracking research on climate change communication: A systematic review17
The effects of synchrony on spatial cue choice in a virtual wayfinding task17
Pro-environmental behavior in a common-resource dilemma: The role of beliefs17
Disrupted self-perspective impact on episodic memory in individuals with self-disorders: A virtual investigation in the Latin Quarter of Paris16
The effectiveness of health belief model in predicting intentions for environmentally sustainable behavior: A meta-analysis16
Green Meal? The role of situational contexts for real-time vegetarian Meal choices16
Intergenerational pathway to nature connectedness16
Mindfulness disposition as a protective factor against stress in Antarctica: A potential countermeasure for long-duration spaceflight?16
The impact of built and natural environments on working memory - A systematic literature review16
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
How to visualize the spatial uncertainty of landmark representations in maps?16
The impact of rural public spaces on place attachment in older adults16
Think green: Investing cognitive effort for a pro-environmental cause16
Would you put your sustainability on display? Preferences for the visibility of sustainable household energy measures in the Netherlands16
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Urban environment and complexity of walking routes in mid-aged and older adults: the moderating effects of cognitive abilities16
The role of information source in climate beliefs, behavioral commitments, and policy preferences16
Beyond warmth: Competence outweighs warmth in the nature–urban stereotype system15
The value of multi-proxy experiments to study pro-environmental behavior15
Nature experience and well-being: Bird watching as an intervention in nursing homes to maintain cognitive resources, mobility, and biopsychosocial health15
Immersion in nature decreases neural sensitivity to extrinsic reward15
The parental perspective of residential environments associated with children's self-regulation15
Natural soundscapes are associated with mental well-being via capacity-building and capacity-restoring pathways15
Nature connectedness and well-being: Evidence from a multi-national investigation across 75 countries15
The role of lay beliefs about willpower and daily demands in day-to-day pro-environmental behavior15
A decade of weather anomalies and natural disasters and their influence on environmental beliefs and actions across Australia15
Engaging through enraging: Does inciting anger about climate change increase support for climate action?15
How spatial configuration shapes memory and cognitive load: A behavioural and EEG study of simultaneous spatial and associative memory15
Visualising and understanding human evaluation of house facades: GAN applied to environmental psychology15
Towards a multi-theory understanding of the salutogenic potential of landscapes15
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Visions of Tomorrow: Emotional drivers of climate change mitigation and adaptation intentions14
Relaxing effects of virtual environments on the autonomic nervous system indicated by heart rate variability: A systematic review14
Associations Among green space exposure, brain, and mental health and cognition in the Adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study14
The where, how, and who of mitigating climate change: A targeted research agenda for psychology14
Climate change concerns impact on young Australians’ psychological distress and outlook for the future14
From consensus gap to common ground: Causes knowledge as a crucial predictor of climate change perceptions across divides14
Does virtual reality forest mindfulness restore individuals’ mood after work and the next day? A multilevel modeling experiment14
Two sides of the same fence: A model of the origins and consequences of meat-related conflict in omnivores and veg*ans14
Climate creativity for action: Conceptual development and the catalytic effect of hope14
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