Journal of Environmental Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board223
Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance184
Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach124
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change122
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Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic112
Characteristics of physical environments that enhance learning: A systematic review of EEG-Based empirical studies103
Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework85
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic84
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?83
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment83
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression78
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros78
Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior75
Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks61
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments61
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity60
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?60
What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study57
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale57
The burden of climate action: How environmental responsibility is impacted by socioeconomic status55
Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception52
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing52
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods52
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales52
Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale50
Sniffing the distance: Scents can make objects appear closer49
Predictors of hurricane evacuation decisions: A meta-analysis49
Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism48
Can an observational training improve the ability of children to navigate in familiar and unfamiliar environments?48
The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing47
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling46
Time perception in naturalistic and urban immersive virtual reality environments44
Eco-anxiety and climate-anxiety linked to indirect exposure: A scoping review of empirical research43
Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance43
Re-examining feelings of responsibility as a predictor of climate belief and worry: A replication across 31 countries43
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California43
Can organizations shape eco-friendly employees? Organizational support improves pro-environmental behaviors at work42
Introducing and testing the personal-collective-governmental efficacy typology: How personal, collective, and governmental efficacy subtypes are associated with differential environmental actions42
Insights into eco-anxiety in Italy: Preliminary psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale, age and gender distribution42
Household crowding during the COVID-19 lockdown fosters anti-democracy even after 17 months: A 5-wave latent growth curve study41
Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various bluespaces: An electroencephalography study41
Greater perceived access to green spaces near homes: Safer and more satisfied residents40
GPS use and navigation ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
Frame by frame, attitude by attitude – The effect of information framing in videos on consumers’ acceptance of sustainable food production innovations39
Policy attributes, perceived impacts, and climate change policy preferences38
Children's perception of urban green infrastructure and nature-related digital tools38
Toward conceptualizing “place immersion” as a spatial neuropsychosocial phenomenon: A multidisciplinary meta-review and -synthesis38
When perception Shapes Reality: A large-scale study of mental health outcomes in polluted and non-polluted environments in China38
Beauty of the Beast: Beauty as an important dimension in the moral standing of animals37
Differences in preferences for office attributes in hybrid working: Office versus Flexible Workdays37
I want to, not I have to: The double-edged sword effect of green involvement on employee green creativity37
The contribution of environmental sensitivity and connectedness to nature to mental health: Does nature view count?37
Exposure to nature leads to a stronger natural-is-better bias in Chinese people37
Place identity and older residents’ coping strategies while ageing in declining neighbourhoods of urban China36
The role of environmental identity and individualism/collectivism in predicting climate change denial: Evidence from nine countries36
Listening through a landline: Using degraded sounds to examine the relationship between cognitive restoration and preference36
Impact of natural views on mental health during COVID-19 quarantine: A natural experiment35
Living closer to the beach is associated with better socioemotional development in young boys34
Is safety a state of mind? Exploring the impact of arousal on pedestrians’ safety appraisals and attentiveness34
Rethinking the nature vs. urban environment dichotomy: Aligning research classifications with human visual perception34
Environmental education in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis33
Corrigendum to “Paying people to protect the environment: A meta-analysis of financial incentive interventions to promote proenvironmental behaviors” [Journal of Environmental Psychology 47 (2016) 24233
Associations between the home physical environment and child self-regulation: A conceptual exploration33
The impact of the indoor home environment on children's prosocial behaviour33
Development of a measuring instrument to monitor the biodiversity awareness of the German population33
Pro-environmental behaviour, connectedness with nature, and the endorsement of pro-environmental norms in youth: Longitudinal relations32
The influence of social exclusion on adolescents' social withdrawal behavior: The moderating role of connectedness to nature32
Perceived national wealth increases support for structural climate policies32
What is measured in pro-environmental behavior research?32
How student perceptions of stuffy air and unpleasant odour are associated with students’ well-being: Cross-level interaction effects of school climate31
From attitude to identity? A field experiment on attitude activation, identity formation, and meat reduction31
Developing and testing a protocol to systematically assess social interaction with urban outdoor environment31
Testing the cross-cultural invariance of an extended theory of planned behaviour in predicting biodiversity-conserving behavioural intentions31
Mindfulness empowers employees' green performance: The relationship and cross-level mechanisms between green mindfulness leadership and employees’ green behavior30
Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist30
Positive emotional experiences from nature contact: A thematic analysis on types and regulation pathways29
When do individuals take action to protect the environment?——Exploring the mediating effects of negative impacts of environmental risk29
The influence of spatial dimensions of virtual environments on attitudes and nonverbal behaviors during social interactions29
Restorative effects of daylight in indoor environments – A systematic literature review29
Passive nature exposure positively predicts prosocial behavior by alleviating perceived crowdedness29
Reconsidering restorative environments for older adults: How the social context shapes restorative experiences28
Lighting color temperature impacts effort-related cardiovascular response to an auditory short-term memory task28
Editorial Board27
Beyond the lab: Feasibility of cognitive neuroscience data collection during a speleological expedition27
Editorial Board27
Preferred distance from camera for online interactions and its relation with individual differences in pathogen sensitivity27
Editorial Board27
Well-being and multisensory urban parks at different ages: The role of interoception and audiovisual perception27
A social-cognitive model of climate change behavioral adaption in Tonga: Relationships among indigenous knowledge, social media use, norms, values, and spiritual beliefs26
Examining relations between left-wing authoritarianism and environmentalism26
Using artificial ground murals to promote restorative sidewalk experiences: Effects of colors and patterns on mood, perceived restorativeness, and heart rate in virtual reality26
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
Disgusting? No, just deviating from internalized norms. Understanding consumer skepticism toward sustainable food alternatives26
Offsetting behavioral costs with personal attitude: Identifying the psychological essence of an environmental attitude measure25
Psychological attributes of house facades: A graph network approach in environmental psychology25
Stereotypes of pro-environmental people: Perception of competence and warmth25
Home environments in an age of precarity25
The impact of perceived partisanship on climate policy support: A conceptual replication and extension of the temporal framing effect25
Long-term exposure to greenspace and anxiety from preschool and primary school children25
Why should I? How victim sensitivity affects pro-environmental engagement25
The emotional influence of different geometries in virtual spaces: A neurocognitive examination25
Aesthetics and logistics in urban parks; can moving waste receptacles to park exits decrease littering?24
High-income Households—Damned to consume or free to engage in high-impact energy-saving behaviours?24
Effects of natural sound on human stress recovery based on EEG techniques24
Using natural intervention to promote subjective well-being of essential workers during public-health crises: A Study during COVID-19 pandemic23
‘It feels smaller now’: The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on apartment residents and their living environment – A longitudinal study23
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Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour23
A conservation orientation in commons dilemmas23
Present generation’s negotiators realize their interests at the cost of future generations22
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 wit22
Cultural shift for pro-environmental behavioural change: Developing and validating the Environmental Culture in Organisations (ECO) scale21
Understimulation resembles overstimulation: Effects on school children's attentional performance, affect, and environmental preference21
Switching between body and environment: The selective effect of spatial misalignment21
Effects of an afforestation activity on thermal and mechanical pain mechanisms: A clinical trial21
Reactions to warnings in the climate commons21
Reflections on the paradigm of virtual migration and real-world place attachment21
The influence of different efficacy constructs on energy conservation intentions and climate change policy support20
Climate change threatens nomadic herding in Mongolia: A model of climate change risk perception and behavioral adaptation20
A general explanation for environmental policy support: An example using carbon taxation approval in Germany20
Exploring how climate change subjective attribution, personal experience with extremes, concern, and subjective knowledge relate to pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions in the United 20
Compassion questionnaire for animals: Scale development and validation20
Transient decreases in blood pressure and heart rate with increased subjective level of relaxation while viewing water compared with adjacent ground20
Reasonable or radical? First-order, second-order, and meta-stereotypes of different climate activists among the German public and climate activists20
A review of the application of EEG signals in the study of thermal comfort20
Religion, environmental guilt, and pro-environmental support: The opposing pathways of stewardship belief and belief in a controlling god20
Comparative study on birdsong and its multi-sensory combinational effects on physio-psychological restoration20
Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism20
The influence of social context and activity on the emotional well-being of forest visitors: A field study19
Effects of the physical environment on children and families in hospital-based emergency departments: A systematic literature review19
Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: Results from the Berlin aging study19
Adverse relations between substandard housing and self-regulation are accentuated for children with difficult temperament19
Current research practices on pro-environmental behavior: A survey of environmental psychologists19
Environmental learning in a virtual environment: Do gender, spatial self-efficacy, and visuospatial abilities matter?19
The commodification of nature: How virtual nature could reinforce environmental generational amnesia19
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 study19
Beating the blues by viewing Green: Depressive symptoms predict greater restoration from stress and negative affect after viewing a nature video19
Orientation behavior in men and women: The relationship between gender stereotype, growth mindset, and spatial self-efficacy19
Factor structure, measurement equivalence, and reliability of the Nature Relatedness Scale Short Form (NR-6) across males and females19
Shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection amongst university students18
Place attachment satisfies psychological needs in the context of environmental risk coping: Experimental evidence of a link between self-determination theory and person-place relationship effects18
Pride and guilt predict pro-environmental behavior: A meta-analysis of correlational and experimental evidence18
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How do we motivate farmers to adopt low-carbon production? Analysis of extrinsic incentives’ internalization18
Affective responses to urban but not to natural scenes depend on inter-individual differences in childhood nature exposure18
Feelings of safety for visitors recreating outdoors at night in different artificial lighting conditions18
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Sacrificing for the environment: The role of nonzero-sum beliefs18
Physical and mental health impacts of housing improvement: A quasi-experimental evaluation of in-situ slum redevelopment in India18
It is just wrong: Moral foundations and food waste18
The moderating effect of place attachment on visitors’ trust and support for recreational fees in national parks18
Impacts of nature and built acoustic-visual environments on human’s multidimensional mood states: A cross-continent experiment18
The Gateway Belief Model: A pre-registered large-scale replication in China18
Do economic preferences and personality traits influence fertilizer use? Evidence from rice farmers in eastern China18
Relationship between housing damage and serum cortisol among survivors of the 2011 tsunami disaster17
Supporting and expressing support for environmental policies17
Green Meal? The role of situational contexts for real-time vegetarian Meal choices17
Perceived distributive fairness and public acceptance of a policy mandating on-site wastewater treatment and reuse17
Doing laundry with biodegradable soap nuts: Can rare and novel behaviors break bad habitual patterns?17
Determining social-psychological drivers of Texas Gulf Coast homeowners’ intention to implement private green infrastructure practices17
Pro-environmental behavior in a common-resource dilemma: The role of beliefs17
Let's talk about climate change: How immersive media experiences stimulate climate conversations17
Anticipating the Storm: Expectations (not experience) of extreme weather predict public support for climate policies17
The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework17
Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing17
Longitudinal relationship between long-distance commuting willingness and behavior: Evidence from European data16
Mindfulness disposition as a protective factor against stress in Antarctica: A potential countermeasure for long-duration spaceflight?16
The cross-cultural challenges of integrating personal norms into the Theory of Planned Behavior: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) approach16
Climate change mitigation: A question of humanitarian or environmental motivation?16
How to visualize the spatial uncertainty of landmark representations in maps?16
Nature experience and well-being: Bird watching as an intervention in nursing homes to maintain cognitive resources, mobility, and biopsychosocial health16
Boosting neighbourhood identification to benefit wellbeing: Evidence from diverse community samples16
Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis16
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
The value of multi-proxy experiments to study pro-environmental behavior16
Think green: Investing cognitive effort for a pro-environmental cause16
The effects of synchrony on spatial cue choice in a virtual wayfinding task16
The impact of rural public spaces on place attachment in older adults16
Corrigendum to “Why going green feels good.” [Journal of Environmental Psychology (2020), Volume 71, 101492]16
Immersion in nature decreases neural sensitivity to extrinsic reward16
Editorial Board15
Attitudes towards technology and their relationship with pro-environmental behaviour: Development and validation of the GATT scale15
Investigating the relationship between spatial and social cognitive maps in humans15
Testing an integrated model of climate change anxiety15
The where, how, and who of mitigating climate change: A targeted research agenda for psychology15
The parental perspective of residential environments associated with children's self-regulation15
Do autistic traits predict pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, and climate change belief?15
Testing the Biophilia theory: Automatic approach tendencies towards nature15
Does virtual reality forest mindfulness restore individuals’ mood after work and the next day? A multilevel modeling experiment15
Associations Among green space exposure, brain, and mental health and cognition in the Adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study15
The role of lay beliefs about willpower and daily demands in day-to-day pro-environmental behavior15
How attractive is sustainability in products: A Systematic Review about eye-tracking studies on sustainability labels15
A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct15
Personal or planetary health? Direct, spillover and carryover effects of non-monetary benefits of vegetarian behaviour15
From theory to action: Explaining the process of knowledge attitudes and practices regarding the use and disposal of plastic among school children15
How and when financial incentives crowd out pro-environmental motivation: A longitudinal quasi-experimental study15
Relaxing effects of virtual environments on the autonomic nervous system indicated by heart rate variability: A systematic review15
The effect of the natural environment and greenness on behavior, function, and well-being among individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A Scoping Review14
Assessing the well-being benefits of VR nature experiences on group: Heart rate variability insights from a cross-over study14
What do people say is the most important reason to protect nature? An analysis of pro-environmental motives across 11 countries14
Climate change concerns impact on young Australians’ psychological distress and outlook for the future14
Two sides of the same fence: A model of the origins and consequences of meat-related conflict in omnivores and veg*ans14
Study of the links between emotional regulation strategies and sense of place in the expression of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in flood victims14
The visual preference and physiological response to Sierpinski triangle acoustic diffuser: An experimental study using VR technique14
The relationship between inpatient mental health ward design and aggression14
Consensus messaging in climate change communication: Metacognition as moderator variable in the gateway belief model14
Reducing meat consumption in restaurants: Exploring the default mechanism in a surprise menu, combined with effort and price incentives14
The mechanism of adolescent environmental passion influencing parent pro-environmental behavior14
The cleaner the environment, the happier the people: Integrating a nationwide public survey and environmental quality monitoring data in South Korea14
Climate change and health risk perception in India: A replication of the climate change risk perception model14
Beyond blue-sky thinking: Diurnal patterns and ephemeral meteorological phenomena impact appraisals of beauty, awe, and value in urban and natural landscapes14
Environmental messages to promote sustainable seafood choices: An exploratory mobile app intervention13
Societal gender role beliefs moderate the pattern of gender differences in public- and private-sphere pro-environmental behaviors13
The way we perceive a place implies who can live there: Essentialisation of place and attitudes towards diversity13
Stress recovery from virtual exposure to a brown (desert) environment versus a green environment13
The impact of visualization techniques of immersive virtual scenarios in promoting nature connectedness: A blind randomized controlled trial with mixed-methods approach13
Incremental adaptation when transformation fails: The importance of place-based values and trust in governance in avoiding maladaptation13
Eudaimonic self-expansion: The effects of eudaimonic reflections on nature connectedness13
A “vegetarian curry stew” or just a “curry stew”? - The effect of neutral labeling of vegetarian dishes on food choice among meat-reducers and non-reducers13
The effects of activity-based workplaces on contributors to organizational productivity: A systematic review13
Outdoor learning in urban schools: Effects on 4–5 year old children's noise and physiological stress13
Political divide in climate change opinions is stronger in some countries and some U.S. states than others: Testing the self-expression hypothesis and the fossil fuel reliance hypothesis13
Are we more welcoming as neighbors or as citizens? Collective psychological ownership and attitudes toward immigrants13
Investigating the benefits of viewing nature for components of working memory capacity13
Personality traits and climate change denial, concern, and proactivity: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
BIO-WELL: The development and validation of a human wellbeing scale that measures responses to biodiversity13
Encountering an emotional landmark on the route for a better spatial memory: What matters, valence or arousal?13
The impacts of nature connectedness on children's well-being: Systematic literature review13
What about the children? The effectiveness of including children in environmental appeals13
Mindfulness to climate change inaction: The role of awe, “Dragons of inaction” psychological barriers and nature connectedness12
The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic12
Research on the physiological and psychological impacts of extraordinary nature on emotions and restorative effects for young adults12
Go out or stress out? Exploring nature connectedness and cumulative stressors as resilience and vulnerability factors in different manifestations of climate anxiety12
Economic vulnerability and emotions toward climate change: A case study of Spain12
Opinion polls as measures of commitment to goals: Environmental attitude in Germany from 1996 to 201812
Impact of workplace design on perceived work performance and well-being: Home versus office12
Corrigendum to “Using information provision and interactive risk maps to motivate testing for radon” [Journal of Environmental Psychology 89 (2023) 102057]12
Why humans form place attachment: A terror management perspective12
Nature walks versus medication: A pre-registered randomized-controlled trial in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder12
Understanding and measuring young people’s sustainability actions12
Are we on the same page? Exploring the relationships between environmental values, self-identity, personal norms and behavior in parent-adolescent dyads12
Does viewing an environment without occluders improve spatial learning of a large-scale virtual environment?12
Exploring the impacts of the soundscape, awe and knowledge on pro-environmental intent12
Mental gravity: Modelling the embodied self on the physical environment12
Changing community climate change attitudes: Evidence from a community exhibit intervention11
Clarifying longitudinal relations between individuals' support for human rights and climate change beliefs11
Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task11
Attachment to real-world places and willingness to migrate to metaverse virtual worlds11
“Do you consider animal welfare to be important?” activating cognitive dissonance via value activation can promote vegetarian choices11
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