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Interactive Playgrounds and Children’s Outdoor Play Behavior: Children’s Perspectives Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Avin Khalilollahi, Dena Kasraian, Astrid D. A. M. Kemperman, Pieter van Wesemael
This paper provides an in-depth understanding of children’s perspectives toward playing on three interactive playgrounds located in a schoolyard in Enschede, a city located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region. The COM-B model of behavior change is used to explore children’s perspectives. This model defines behavior as the result of an interaction between three components that
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Neighborhood Safety and Perinatal Mental Health Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Cassandra L. Svelnys, Angela J. Narayan
Neighborhood safety (NS) has important implications for mental health, yet research is needed to clarify how different constructs that measure NS associate with mental health problems. Research is particularly underdeveloped on NS among low-income, postpartum individuals, who may experience greater vulnerability. This study examined two measures of NS, self-reported and coder-rated, and their associations
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The Mitigating Effects of Water Sound Attributes on Stress Responses to Traffic Noise Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Li Deng, Hope Hui Rising, Chao Gu, Anju Bimal
Traffic noise is a significant risk factor for adverse health outcomes. Despite burgeoning interest in reducing the harmful health effects of traffic noise, research on the influence of physical and psychoacoustic attributes has been sparse. Consequently, this study examines the impacts of various acoustic attributes on mitigating stress response to traffic noise using dependent variables derived from
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Nature Sounds for Stress Recovery and Healthy Eating: A Lab Experiment Differentiating Water and Bird Sound Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Nathalie Michels, Preben Hamers
This lab-based study tested whether nature sounds can lead to less stress reactivity, better stress recovery, less stress-induced eating and healthy food choice stimulation, while differentiating b...
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The Effect of Nature-Based Adventure Interventions on Depression: A Systematic Review Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Claudio D. Rosa, Talisson S. Chaves, Silvia Collado, Lincoln R. Larson, Christiana C. Profice
We conducted a systematic review to synthesize evidence of the effect of nature-based adventure (NBA) interventions on depressive symptoms. Our search was conducted in April 2021 and utilized the f...
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Nature Exposure is Associated With Reduced Smartphone Use Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Kelton Minor, Kristoffer Lind Glavind, Aaron J. Schwartz, Christopher M. Danforth, Sune Lehmann, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen
Evidence links greenspace exposure with restorative benefits to cognition and well-being, yet nature contact is declining for younger demographics. Although natural settings have been shown to rest...
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Factors Affecting Pedestrians’ Perceptions of Safety, Comfort, and Pleasantness Induced by Public Space Lighting: A Systematic Literature Review Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Tamar Trop, Sharon Shoshany Tavory, Boris A. Portnov
Public space lighting (PSL), if adequately designed, may significantly enhance pedestrians’ sense of safety and comfort. Yet, the accumulated knowledge about subjective evaluation of PSL is still i...
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A Quasi-Experimental Exploration of Activity-Based Flexible Office Design and Demographic Differences in Employee Absenteeism Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Ann S. Lauterbach, Florian Kunze
This study examines whether transitioning from cellular offices to an activity-based flexible office (A-FO) impacts employee absenteeism over time. Based on privacy theory, we hypothesized that cha...
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Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggers Moral Inference, Not Licensing by Observers Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jan Urban, Štěpán Bahník, Markéta Braun Kohlová
Several studies have shown that moral licensing by observers makes observers more lenient in their judgment of subsequent immoral behaviors committed by a person. Environmental behavior is generall...
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Blue, Rather Than Red Light Can Nudge Employees to Choose Delayed But Larger Wage Payment Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Xiaowei Geng, Kai Zhang, Jiatao Ma, Huiming Yang, Ziguang Chen, Shu Li
Most businesses have been severely affected during the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, as they lack sufficient cash reserves for turnaround in this devastated business environ...
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Greening and Safety: The Influence of Road Greenness on Driver’s Attention and Emergency Reaction Time Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Yen-Cheng Chiang, Rou-An Ke, Dongying Li, Pei-Yi Weng
Road traffic accidents are among the top 10 causes of death globally. With regard to potential accidents, if driver reaction time (RT) can be reduced, drivers would have more time to assess the sit...
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A Splash and a Crowd: Do Water Fountains and Storefronts Improve Plaza’s Visitability? Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Dina Abdulkarim, Jack L. Nasar
Whyte made recommendations based on observational studies on making public plazas more livable. The present paper describes two experiments that looked at whether two design attributes he identifie...
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Relationships Among Environmental Attitudes, Environmental Efficacy, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors Across and Within 11 Countries Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Lindsay B. Miller, Ronald E. Rice, Abel Gustafson, Matthew H. Goldberg
Pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) are crucial to reducing environmental degradations, and much research has focused on two key psychological antecedents: pro-environmental attitudes and efficacy b...
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Communicating the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: Diverse Audiences and Effects Over Time Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Matthew H. Goldberg, Abel Gustafson, Sander van der Linden, Seth A. Rosenthal, Anthony Leiserowitz
Prior research has demonstrated that communicating the scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is happening is an effective way to increase public understanding and engagement with th...
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Multilevel Evidence for the Parent-Adolescent Dyadic Effect of Familiarity With Climate Change on Pro-Environmental Behaviors in 14 Societies: Moderating Effects of Societal Power Distance and Individualism Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Weiwei Xia, Liman Man Wai Li
In the present study, we adopted a global view for exploring how parent–adolescent dyads influence one another’s pro-environmental behaviors across 14 societies. We evaluated whether their own and ...
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Relationships of Task–Environment Fit With Office Workers’ Concentration and Team Functioning in Activity-Based Working Environments Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Gisela Bäcklander, Anne Richter
Task–Environment fit, a special case of Person–Environment fit, has been suggested as the central mechanism through which Activity-Based Working (ABW) Environments support productivity and employee...
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Wearable Sensing and Mining of the Informativeness of Older Adults’ Physiological, Behavioral, and Cognitive Responses to Detect Demanding Environmental Conditions Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Alex Torku, Albert P. C. Chan, Esther H. K. Yung, JoonOh Seo, Maxwell F. Antwi-Afari
Due to the decline in functional capability, older adults are more likely to encounter excessively demanding environmental conditions (that result in stress and/or mobility limitation) than the ave...
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Effectiveness of a Point-of-Decision Prompt to Encourage Physical Distancing on Greenways and Rail-Trails During the COVID-19 Pandemic Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Richard W. Christiana, Shay M. Daily, Thomas K. Bias, Vaike Haas, Angela M. Dyer, Elizabeth Shay, Adam Hege, Robert Broce, Heather Venrick, Christiaan G. Abildso
Adherence to public health messaging recommending physical distancing in public outdoor spaces during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies to promote physical distancing are cur...
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Top-Down Processing and Nature Connectedness Predict Psychological and Physiological Effects of Nature Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Mika Koivisto, Enni Jalava, Lina Kuusisto, Henry Railo, Simone Grassini
Exposure to natural environments has positive psychological effects. These effects have been explained from an evolutionary perspective, emphasizing humans’ innate preference for natural stimuli. W...
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Greenspace Exposure and Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors in Schoolchildren Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Lourdes Ezpeleta, José Blas Navarro, Lucía Alonso, Núria de la Osa, Albert Ambrós, Mònica Ubalde, Eva Penelo, Payam Dadvand
Green environments are associated with improved child brain development and mental health. We study cross-sectionally the association of the availability of greenspace at home and school with obses...
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The Influence of Physical Burden on the Esthetic Preference for Green Natural Environment Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Sizhe Liu, Hua Wang, Wenxuan Liu, Shuxian Lai, Xueru Zhao, Xianyou He, Wei Zhang
The perception of beauty is known to be associated with the bodily sensations and evolutionary implications. However, whether the esthetic preference for natural landscape environments with differe...
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Reducing Plastic Waste by Visualizing Marine Consequences Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Yu Luo, Jeremy Douglas, Sabine Pahl, Jiaying Zhao
Plastic pollution has become a major global conservation challenge. To reduce the generation of plastic waste, we designed and tested several behavioral interventions in a randomized control trial ...
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The Road More Traveled: Evacuation Networks in the US and Japan Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Timothy Fraser
When crisis strikes, where do evacuees go? This question affects how policymakers and first responders allocate their time, funds, and resources after disaster. While past research compared evacuat...
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A Multi-Method Behavior Setting Analysis of a Protracted Refugee Camp in Jordan Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Zaid Awamleh, Deniz Hasirci
The study draws upon theory and research on behavior settings to understand how the built environment shapes selected aspects of behavior in a protracted refugee camp located in an urban area in Jo...
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Pathways from Built Environment to Health Care Costs: Linking Objectively Measured Built Environment with Physical Activity and Health Care Expenditures Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Behram Wali, Lawrence D. Frank, Deborah R. Young, Brian E. Saelens, Richard T. Meenan, John F. Dickerson, Erin M. Keast, Jennifer L. Kuntz, Stephen P. Fortmann
Evidence connecting health care expenditures with physical activity and built environment is rare. We examined how detailed urban form relates to mode specific moderate-to-vigorous physical activit...
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Once Good, Always Good? Testing Nudge’s Spillovers on Pro Environmental Behavior Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-12-27 Sophie Clot, Marina Della Giusta, Sarah Jewell
It is a common assumption to believe that encouraging pro environmental behavior (PEB) in one domain would lead to increased PEB in other domains (best-case scenario) or just be restricted to the initial targeted domain (worst-case scenario). Evidence from a rapidly growing literature on moral licensing suggests that interventions targeting behavioral change could lead to an even worse scenario, with
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Place Attachment and Disaster Preparedness: Examining the Role of Place Scale and Preparedness Type Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Amanda Wallis, Ronald Fischer, Wokje Abrahamse
Research shows that place attachment is associated with disaster preparedness. In two studies we examined (1) participants’ place attachment at different spatial scales, (2) participants’ preparedness (intentions and behaviors), and (3) place attachment as a mediator of previously identified demographic predictors of preparedness. Our findings show that place attachment is associated with both preparedness
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Access to Environmental Cognitive Alternatives Predicts Pro-Environmental Activist Behavior Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Joshua D. Wright, Michael T. Schmitt, Caroline M. L. Mackay
We expand on the plausible role of access to cognitive alternatives to the environmental status quo (i.e., the ability of people to imagine what a sustainable relationship with nature would look like) in motivating pro-environmental collective action. Using a representative sample of Canadians on age, gender, and ethnicity (N = 1,029) we evaluate the associations between access to environmental cognitive
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Environmental Conditions Associated With Youth Delinquency Events: A Temporal, Meteorological, and Contextual Perspective Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Alexander Trinidad, César San Juan, Laura Vozmediano
Research on youth delinquency has been essential for gaining a deeper understanding of the etiology of delinquent behavior. Studies considering the environmental perspective have increased during the last decade, but relatively little attention has been paid to temporal patterns and weather conditions. The present study explores the seasonality of youth delinquency as well as the association between
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Climato-Economic Context of Regional Crime and Corruption Across the Russian Federation Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Alexander N. Tatarko, Ekaterina V. Maklasova, Evert Van de Vliert
Cross-national research claims that the crime-and-corruption gap between relatively poor and relatively rich countries is larger in more demanding climates that require more cash and capital to cope with the climate. However, this claim is premature because countries differ in many confounding ways including histories and politics. We, therefore, re-tested the climato-economic context of violent crime
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Effects of Nature Values and Regulatory Fit of Message Framing on Message Evaluation and Actual Pro-Environmental Donations Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Karl-Andrew Woltin, Joanne Sneddon, Anat Bardi
Messages are often tailored to individual differences, as fit is believed to influence behavior. We examine the effects of regulatory fit (i.e., matching promotion/prevention message framing to people’s promotion/prevention orientation) and the priority that individuals attribute to nature values, on the evaluation of climate change messages and donations to pro-environmental charities. We measured
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The Relationship Between City “Greenness” and Homicide in the US: Evidence Over a 30-Year Period Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-09-18 Jonnell C. Sanciangco, Gregory D. Breetzke, Zihan Lin, Yuhao Wang, Kimberly A. Clevenger, Amber L. Pearson
Residents in US cities are exposed to high levels of stress and violent crime. At the same time, a number of cities have put forward “greening” efforts which may promote nature’s calming effects and reduce stressful stimuli. Previous research has shown that greening may lower aggressive behaviors and violent crime. In this study we examined, for the first time, the longitudinal effects over a 30-year
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Nationwide Lockdown on Mental Health, Environmental Concern, and Prejudice Against Other Social Groups Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Bastian Schiller, Daniel Tönsing, Tobias Kleinert, Robert Böhm, Markus Heinrichs
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit humanity globally. Besides its obvious threats to our physical health and economic stability, one can only speculate about the pandemic’s and its countermeasures’ psychosocial impacts. Here, we took advantage of a sample of healthy male participants who had completed psychosocial measures on mental health, environmental concern, and prejudice against asylum-seekers just
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Policy and Environmental Predictors of Park Visits During the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Getting Out While Staying in Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 David S. Curtis, Alessandro Rigolon, Dorothy L. Schmalz, Barbara B. Brown
The COVID-19 pandemic may have altered visitation patterns to parks, with potential effects on human health. Little is known about park use early in the pandemic, how park availability influenced use, and whether park visits accelerated COVID-19 spread. Using weekly cell phone location data for 620 U.S. counties, we show park visits decreased by an average 26% between March 15 and May 9, 2020. Net
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Using a Serious Digital Game to Communicate Drought Risk in Singapore: An Experimental Study Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Corinne Ong, Eduardo Araral
This experimental study tested the effects of digital tactical messaging on 189 undergraduates’ drought risk responsiveness using a mobile serious game. In the game’s virtual household environment, treatment groups were exposed to message framings informed by risk psychological theories. Drought risk responsiveness was indicated by participants’ in-game water consumption levels. The first intervention
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Nature Connectedness and Nature Exposure Interactively Influence Social Dominance Orientation and Policy Support for Marginalized Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Henry Kin Shing Ng, Angel Nga Man Leung
Social dominance orientation (SDO) has been reported to predict attitudes and behavior toward the natural environment. This research investigated whether dispositional connectedness with and temporary exposure to nature would reversely alter SDO. Two studies reported consistent results: Nature connectedness predicted lower SDO, and exposure to nature (vs. urban) decreased SDO only among nature-connected
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Evacuation Behavior in a Subway Train Emergency: A Video-based Analysis Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Richard Philpot, Mark Levine
How do people behave in the seconds after they become aware they have been caught up in a real-life transport emergency? This paper presents the first micro-behavioral, video-based analysis of the behavior of passengers during a small explosion and subsequent fire on a subway train. We analyzed the behavior of 40 passengers present in the same carriage as the explosion. We documented the first action
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Brightness Motivates Healthy Behaviors: The Role of Self-Accountability Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-06-26 Eugene Y. Chan
A growing literature suggests the possibility that brightness (vs. darkness) affects myriad human behaviors and how people think. One stream suggests that brightness increases self-awareness. We extend these findings and formally hypothesize that brightness (vs. darkness) increases self-accountability, thereby motivating people to take actions to meet their self-standards for health, of which most
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Weather, Values, Capacity and Concern: Toward a Social-Cognitive Model of Specialty Crop Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Risk Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Guang Han, Ethan D. Schoolman, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr., Lois Wright Morton
As specialty crop production has become increasingly important to U.S. agriculture, public and private stakeholders have called for research and outreach efforts centered on risks posed by climate change. Drawing on a survey of specialty crop farmers, this study explores farmers’ perceptions of climate change risks. Underlying cognitive, experiential, and socio-cultural factors hypothesized to influence
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The Effect of Weather on Assault Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Jonathan Corcoran, Renee Zahnow
This paper examines the role of local weather conditions in explaining variations in assault, in sub-tropical Brisbane, Australia. It details the extent to which local variations in weather are important in shaping the necessary preconditions for assault to take place. Results suggest that higher daily temperatures are associated with an increased propensity for assault at the neighborhood level after
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Nature Contact in the Carceral Workplace: Greenspace and Staff Sickness Absence in Prisons in England and Wales Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Dominique Moran, Phil I. Jones, Jacob A. Jordaan, Amy E. Porter
This paper demonstrates for the first time that prisons with a higher proportion of natural vegetation within their perimeter have lower levels of staff sickness absence. It makes three significant contributions. First, it extends studies of workplace nature contact into the un-researched carceral context. Second, whereas previous workplace nature contact studies have largely utilized single-site surveys
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Does Beauty Matter? The Effect of Perceived Attractiveness on Children’s Moral Judgments of Harmful Actions against Animals Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Silvia Collado, Rocío Rodríguez-Rey, Miguel A. Sorrel
The current research asks whether children’s judgments of harmful actions toward animals depend on animals’ perceived attractiveness. In Study 1, primary school children (N = 359) rated the perceived attractiveness of six animals and judged how severe it is to hurt them, as compared to moral transgressions, social-conventional transgressions, and personal choices. Hurting attractive animals was perceived
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How are Neighborhood and Street-Level Walkability Factors Associated with Walking Behaviors? A Big Data Approach Using Street View Images Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Bon Woo Koo, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Nisha Botchwey
The built environment characteristics associated with walkability range from neighborhood-level urban form factors to street-level urban design factors. However, many existing walkability indices are based on neighborhood-level factors and lack consideration for street-level factors. Arguably, this omission is due to the lack of a scalable way to measure them. This paper uses computer vision to quantify
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Understanding the Mechanisms of Activity-based Workspaces: A Case Study Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Tobias T. Eismann, Oscar Pakos, Marc Rücker, Martin Meinel, Lukas Maier, Kai-Ingo Voigt
In recent years an increasing number of organizations have started to rethink their physical work environments and recognized the value of having activity-based workspaces (ABWs). This allows employees to choose freely between several work environments based on their specific task. There is growing debate amongst researchers about the effects of ABWs on employee behavior, but companies are still not
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Perceived Fit and User Behavior in Activity-Based Work Environments Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-03-03 Jan Gerard Hoendervanger, Nico W. Van Yperen, Mark P. Mobach, Casper J. Albers
While activity-based working is gaining popularity worldwide, research shows that workers frequently experience a misfit between the task at hand and their work setting. In the current study, experience sampling data were used to examine how perceived fit in activity-based work environments is related to user behavior (i.e., the use of work settings and setting-switching). We found that workers’ perceived
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The Effects of Environmental Sustainability Labels on Selection, Purchase, and Consumption of Food and Drink Products: A Systematic Review Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Christina Potter, Anastasios Bastounis, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Cristina Stewart, Kerstin Frie, Kate Tudor, Filippo Bianchi, Emma Cartwright, Brian Cook, Mike Rayner, Susan A. Jebb
This review assessed the effects of environmental labels on consumers’ demand for more sustainable food products. Six electronic databases were searched for experimental studies of ecolabels and food choices. We followed standard Cochrane methods and results were synthesized using vote counting. Fifty-six studies (N = 42,768 participants, 76 interventions) were included. Outcomes comprised selection
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(Dis)orientation and Design Preferences Within an Unfamiliar Care Environment: A Content Analysis of Older Adults’ Qualitative Reports After Route Learning Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Mary O’Malley, Anthea Innes, Jan M. Wiener
Ensuring that environments are designed to cater for those with decreasing orientation, perceptual and mobility skills, is an example of how environments are being changed to become more age and de...
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Cross-cultural Design and Healthcare Waiting Rooms for Indigenous People in Regional Australia Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Timothy O’Rourke, Daphne Nash, Michele Haynes, Meredith Burgess, Paul Memmott
The theory of supportive design influences healthcare facility design but is under-researched for different cultural groups. This mixed-methods study compared two Indigenous sample populations in A...
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Learning in Noisy Classrooms: Children’s Reports of Annoyance and Distraction from Noise are Associated with Individual Differences in Mind-Wandering and Switching skills Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Jessica Massonnié, Philippe Frasseto, Denis Mareschal, Natasha Z. Kirkham
Classrooms are noisy, yet little is known about pupils’ subjective reactions to noise. We surveyed 112 children between 8.70 and 11.38 years of age and extracted five dimensions in their reactions ...
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The Behavioral Response to Increased Pedestrian and Staying Activity in Public Space: A Field Experiment Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-08-29 Oscar Zapata, Jordi Honey-Rosés
William Whyte originally hypothesized that the presence of people in a public space would attract more people. Contemporary planners now refer to “sticky streets” as places where pedestrians are co...
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“My Words Matter”: The Role of Adolescents in Changing Pro-environmental Habits in the Family Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Rita Žukauskienė, Inga Truskauskaitė-Kunevičienė, Vaida Gabė, Goda Kaniušonytė
A substantial body of research provides evidence for the role of parents in transferring pro-environmental attitudes, values, and behaviors to their children. However, little research has focused o...
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Nature Enhanced Meditation: Effects on Mindfulness, Connectedness to Nature, and Pro-Environmental Behavior Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Travis N. Ray, Scott A. Franz, Nicole L. Jarrett, Scott M. Pickett
Previous research suggests that meditation, a mindfulness exercise, could result in increased connectedness to nature and pro-environmental behavior. Exposure to nature also is associated with thes...
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The Normative Route to a Sustainable Future: Examining Children’s Environmental Values, Identity and Personal Norms to Conserve Energy Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Nadja Zeiske, Leonie Venhoeven, Linda Steg, Ellen van der Werff
Environmental problems could be reduced if individuals act pro-environmentally. Typically, studies have examined factors explaining pro-environmental behavior among adults, but not among children. ...
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Beyond Co-location: Visual Connections of Staff Workstations and Staff Communication in Primary Care Clinics Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Lisa Lim, Ruth Kanfer, Robert J. Stroebel, Craig M. Zimring
The importance of communication among healthcare providers has been long recognized, and many healthcare organizations are implementing team-based care, with emphasis on staff communication. While ...
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Perceived Green at Speed: A Simulated Driving Experiment Raises New Questions for Attention Restoration Theory and Stress Reduction Theory Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Bin Jiang, Jibo He, Jielin Chen, Linda Larsen, Huaqing Wang
Few studies have investigated the impact of landscapes on humans’ mental status while they are moving at high speeds, such as driving on the freeway. This study used a simulation system to measure ...
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Towards a Place-based Measure of Fear of Crime: A Systematic Review of App-based and Crowdsourcing Approaches Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Reka Solymosi, David Buil-Gil, Laura Vozmediano, Inês Sousa Guedes
Few researches have considered fear of crime as a context-specific experience. This article promotes a place-based theoretical framework for studying crime perceptions through presenting app-based ...
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“There’s a Bit of a Ripple-effect”: A Social Identity Perspective on the Role of Third-Places and Aging in Place Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Polly Fong, Catherine Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, S. Alexander Haslam
Urban sociology highlights an important role that a city’s social infrastructure, or “third-places,” play in supporting healthy communities. Informed by social identity theorizing, this study explo...
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No Evidence of Within-Domain Moral Licensing in the Environmental Domain Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Jan Urban, Markéta Braun Kohlová, Štěpán Bahník
Several studies have suggested that people might be less likely to engage in proenvironmental behavior subsequent to their prior engagement in proenvironmental behavior. We have conducted a preregi...
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Green Building, Green Behavior? An Analysis of Building Characteristics that Support Environmentally Responsible Behaviors Environ. Behav. (IF 6.548) Pub Date : 2020-07-24 Erin M. Hamilton
This study examines the environmentally responsible behaviors (ERBs) of undergraduates (n = 575). ERBs were measured in an online survey and the influence of situational context on behavior was exp...