Journal of Environmental Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Initial evidence for a systematic link between core values and emotional experiences in environmental situations192
The influence of environmental context on spatial learning. Openness of the environment and spatial mental representations in the city of Venice184
The restorative effects of mental imagery of nature: A study on subjective and physiological responses165
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Evidence gap: Data from clinical contexts needed to better support youth experiencing the mental health impacts of climate change114
Experience or attribution? Exploring the relationship between personal experience, political affiliation, and subjective attributions with mitigation behavioural intentions and COVID-19 recovery polic101
Relationship between housing damage and serum cortisol among survivors of the 2011 tsunami disaster96
Children's preferences on the move: Establishing the characteristics of unofficial paths and their benefits for children's physical play in Australian primary school grounds88
The roots of ecological dominance orientation: Assessing individual preferences for an anthropocentric and hierarchically organized world84
Ocean imagery relates to an individual's cognitions and pro-environmental behaviours80
Doing laundry with biodegradable soap nuts: Can rare and novel behaviors break bad habitual patterns?78
Navigation ability in young, middle-aged and older adults: Different domains of knowledge and their relationship with visuospatial factors76
Acute stress effects of impulsive noise during mental work75
Polarization within consensus? An audience segmentation model of politically dependent climate attitudes in Denmark74
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?74
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic72
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales64
Landmark-based navigation instructions improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition in real-world environments57
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?56
Clarifying longitudinal relations between individuals' support for human rights and climate change beliefs56
Finding the shortest path in a familiar environment: A comparison between describing and walking a path after accounting for the role of individual factors55
Social influence and reduction of animal protein consumption among young adults: Insights from a socio-psychological model54
Spatial generalization in sketch maps: A systematic classification52
Place attachment buffers against the effect of perceived discrimination on psychological distress in Chinese migrant children: A two-wave longitudinal study51
Pro-environmental behavior in a common-resource dilemma: The role of beliefs50
Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach49
Short virtual nature breaks in the office environment can restore stress: An experimental study49
Effects of conventional and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on driving abilities: A tDCS-driving simulator study47
Determining social-psychological drivers of Texas Gulf Coast homeowners’ intention to implement private green infrastructure practices46
On how natural and urban soundscapes alter brain activity during cognitive performance46
The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework45
Perceived distributive fairness and public acceptance of a policy mandating on-site wastewater treatment and reuse45
Anthropause appreciation, biophilia, and ecophilosophical contemplations amidst a global pandemic44
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment44
Route learning in patients with schizophrenia: The role of the forward testing effect43
Perceived carbon pricing effectiveness impacts its perceived fairness – Applying and extending a theoretical framework42
Nature experiences and pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial41
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change41
Examining the (non-linear) relationships between climate change anxiety, information seeking, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions40
What psychology can tell us about the cultural effects of climate change39
Toward a better understanding of environmental concern as a belief system: The lens of network psychometrics38
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Good city and nice people: The impact of the perceived built environment on prosocial tendencies, flourishing, depression, and anxiety37
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The burden of climate action: How environmental responsibility is impacted by socioeconomic status36
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Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks36
Emotional researchers or emotional audiences? The effect of emotions in climate change communication35
Psychometric properties of the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS-13) and the prediction of pro-environmental behavior35
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Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity35
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing35
Don't bug me!: The role of names, functions, and feelings in shaping children's and adults' conservation attitudes about unappealing species35
Publishing in the Journal of Environmental Psychology: Priorities and Insights from the new Editors-in-Chief34
Gardening and cognitive ageing: Longitudinal findings from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 192134
Psychological and physiological effects of a wooden office room on human well-being: Results from a randomized controlled trial34
Love for the globe but also the country matter for the environment: Links between nationalistic, patriotic, global identification and pro-environmentalism33
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros33
How do schoolchildren perceive litter? Overlooked in urban but not in natural environments32
Effects of framing, nomenclature, and aversion to tampering with nature on consumer acceptance of cultivated meat in Singapore32
The psychological benefits of open-water (wild) swimming: Exploring a self-determination approach using a 19-country sample32
Does meditation training promote pro-environmental behavior? A cross-sectional comparison and a randomized controlled trial32
Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic31
An unpredictable environment reduces pro-environmental behavior: A dynamic public goods experiment on forest use31
Characteristics of physical environments that enhance learning: A systematic review of EEG-Based empirical studies31
What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study31
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods31
A higher illuminance reduces momentary exhaustion in exhausted employees: Results from a field study31
Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance31
Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception30
Homes in flux: Evaluating personal and social dynamics amid urban variability and mass-produced prototype housing30
Predictors of hurricane evacuation decisions: A meta-analysis30
The role of place attachment and spatial anxiety in environmental knowledge29
Gratitude letters to nature: Effects on self-nature representations and pro-environmental behavioral intentions29
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression28
Here I belong!: Understanding immigrant descendants’ place attachment and its impact on their community citizenship behaviors in China28
“Nature is mine/ours”: Measuring individual and collective psychological ownership of nature28
Supporting and expressing support for environmental policies28
How does VR differ from renderings in human perception of office layout design? A quantitative evaluation of a full-scale immersive VR28
A goal-discrepancy account of restorative nature experiences27
Does belief in climate change conspiracy theories predict everyday life pro-environmental behaviors? Testing the longitudinal relationship in China and the U.S.27
The relationship between identity and environmental concern: A meta-analysis27
Development of an objective measure of knowledge of plastic recycling: The outcomes of plastic recycling knowledge scale (OPRKS)26
Moral hazards and solar radiation management: Evidence from a large-scale online experiment26
Self-silencing predicts behavioral conformity in sustainability contexts26
Clarifying the nature of the association between eco-anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour26
Give qualitative research the recognition it deserves26
When your shop says #lessismore. Online communication interventions for clothing sufficiency25
Do people's assumptions about the social world matter? The effects of social axioms on environmental attitude and efficacy beliefs25
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments25
Climate adaptation and climate mitigation do not undermine each other: A cross-cultural test in four countries25
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale25
The effect of environmental versus social framing on pro-environmental behavior25
Comparing the effect of mindful and other engagement interventions in nature on attention restoration, nature connection, and mood25
Climate-change worry among two cohorts of late adolescents: Exploring macro and micro worries, coping, and relations to climate engagement, pessimism, and well-being24
Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior24
How far can we get with eco driving tech?24
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 disclosing product lifecycle carbon footprint information on consumer purchase intentions based on the APE model perspective: An ERP and questionnaire study24
From childhood blue space exposure to adult environmentalism: The role of nature connectedness and nature contact24
Regulate me! Self-control dissatisfaction in meat reduction success relates to stronger support for behavior-regulating policy23
Nature as community: An overlooked predictor of pro-environmental intentions23
In search of weakened resolve: Does climate-engineering awareness decrease individuals’ commitment to mitigation?22
Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework.21
Situation networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences21
Implementing an activity-based work environment: A longitudinal view of the effects on privacy and psychological ownership21
Which is primary: Preference or perceived instoration?21
Longitudinal relations between climate change concern and psychological wellbeing21
Positive affect and natural landscape in virtual reality: A systematic review comparing interventions, measures, and outcomes20
The personal and the social: Twin contributors to climate action20
Capturing the well-being exposome in poly-environmental scores.20
Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale20
Antecedents of environmental values and pro-environmental behavior intentions: A self-determination theory approach20
Who commits to the community? Person-community fit, place attachment, and participation in local Japanese communities20
Theory enhances impact. Reply to: ‘The case for impact-focused environmental psychology’19
My home is my new office: The relationship between environmental comfort, workplace attachment, and psychological needs in the context of remote working19
Climate change and depressive disorders in middle-aged and older people in China: A quasi-experimental study19
Different names for “natural gas” influence public perception of it19
Form and color visual perception in green exercise: Positive effects on attention, mood, and self-esteem19
The misperception of carbon footprints of the rich and the poor18
Acting as we feel: Which emotional responses to the climate crisis motivate climate action18
GPS use and navigation ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis18
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California18
Development and validation of the domain-specific climate change distress scale18
Compassion is key: How virtually embodying nature increases connectedness to nature18
Making theory useful for understanding high-impact behavior. A response to van Valkengoed et al. (2021)18
The ability to choose how to interact with other people in the park space and its role in terms of perceived safety and preference18
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Green Meal? The role of situational contexts for real-time vegetarian Meal choices18
Profiles of perceived physical features and emotional experiences in favorite places: Discovering ambivalent place preferences18
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Magical contagion and commemorative plaques: Effects of celebrity occupancy on property values18
Climate change mitigation: A question of humanitarian or environmental motivation?18
Psychological responses to buildings and natural landscapes17
Nature deficit and mental health among adolescents: A perspectives of conservation of resources theory17
From oppressiveness to stress: A development of Stress Reduction Theory in the context of contemporary high-density city17
Sex and the city park: The role of gender and sex in psychological restoration in urban greenspaces17
Important to me and my society: How culture influences the roles of personal values and perceived group values in environmental engagements via collectivistic orientation17
Parental factors affecting children's nature connectedness17
Natural environments, psychosocial health, and health behaviors in a crisis – A scoping review of the literature in the COVID-19 context17
Time in nature is associated with higher levels of positive mood: Evidence from the 2023 NatureDose™ student survey17
Conceptual replication study and meta-analysis suggest simulated nature does not reliably restore pure executive attention measured by the attention network task17
Problem awareness does not predict littering: A field study on littering in the Gambia17
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Regulatory focus and self-licensing dynamics: A motivational account of behavioural consistency and balancing16
Re-examining feelings of responsibility as a predictor of climate belief and worry: A replication across 31 countries16
Household crowding during the COVID-19 lockdown fosters anti-democracy even after 17 months: A 5-wave latent growth curve study16
Aversion to loss of place: The endowment effect for local facilities16
The development of the zero-sum beliefs between nature and humanity scale16
“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 deprivation16
Teachers as agents of environmental literacy and the facilitating role of environmental psychologists16
Priming the public to construct preferences for sustainable design: A discrete choice model for green infrastructure16
Sniffing the distance: Scents can make objects appear closer16
The concerned steward effect: Exploring the relationship between climate anxiety, psychological distress, and self-reported climate related behavioural engagement16
Nature experience and well-being: Bird watching as an intervention in nursing homes to maintain cognitive resources, mobility, and biopsychosocial health16
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On the importance of solidarity for transforming social systems towards sustainability16
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Global climate marches sharply raise attention to climate change: Analysis of climate search behavior in 46 countries15
The effect of collaboration on farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors – A systematic review15
Does environmental psychology afford an “effective context” for the study of structural racism?15
Interventions promoting pro-environmental behaviors in children: A meta-analysis and a research agenda15
Toward conceptualizing “place immersion” as a spatial neuropsychosocial phenomenon: A multidisciplinary meta-review and -synthesis15
Beyond built density: From coarse to fine-grained analyses of emotional experiences in urban environments15
Psychological needs in the built environment15
Effects of nature-based intervention in the treatment of depression: A multi-center, randomized controlled trial15
How to visualize the spatial uncertainty of landmark representations in maps?15
Hotter weather, less of a hoax? Testing the longitudinal association between experience of temperature anomalies and belief in climate change conspiracy theories15
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling15
Burglars’ choice of intrusion routes: A virtual reality experimental study15
Different types of virtual natural environments enhance subjective vitality through restorativeness14
Boosting neighbourhood identification to benefit wellbeing: Evidence from diverse community samples14
Time perception in naturalistic and urban immersive virtual reality environments14
A meta-analysis of the association of aircraft noise at school on children's reading comprehension and psychological health for use in health impact assessment14
Connectedness to nature promotes downplaying others’ humanity among anxiously attached people14
Think green: Investing cognitive effort for a pro-environmental cause14
Shifting landscapes: Women's experiences of socio-cultural changes from in-situ redevelopment in Ahmedabad14
Increasing retrofit device adoption in social housing: Evidence from two field experiments in Belgium14
The symmetry and asymmetry of pedestrian route choice14
Navigating the divided city: Place identity and the time-geography of segregation14
See or Be? Contact with nature and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown14
Insights into eco-anxiety in Italy: Preliminary psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Hogg Eco-anxiety Scale, age and gender distribution14
Perceptions of climate change threat across 121 nations: The role of individual and national wealth14
Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism13
East-West beliefs challenged by North-South evidence about collectivism versus individualism13
Satisfaction with activity-support and physical home-workspace characteristics in relation to mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic13
Give it a Try! How electric vehicle test drives influence symbolism perceptions and adoption intent13
The effects of synchrony on spatial cue choice in a virtual wayfinding task13
Mechanisms underlying childhood exposure to blue spaces and adult subjective well-being: An 18-country analysis13
Intrinsic functional connectivity correlates of pro-environmentalism13
The value of multi-proxy experiments to study pro-environmental behavior13
Space at home and psychological distress during the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy13
Effects of COVID-19-related stay-at-home order on neuropsychophysiological response to urban spaces: Beneficial role of exposure to nature?13
Simulated nature walks improve psychological well-being along a natural to urban continuum13
Retraction notice to “Elevated ceiling heights reduce the cognitive performance of higher-education students during exams” Journal of Environmental Psychology (2024) 10236713
The various forms of anger about climate change in Australia and their relations with self-reported actions, intentions, and distress13
On the importance of qualitative research in environmental psychology -- response to13
Pre-registered replication of the gateway belief model – Results from a representative German sample13
Longitudinal relationship between long-distance commuting willingness and behavior: Evidence from European data13
Effects of social position and household affordances on COVID-19 lockdown resilience and coping13
The multidimensionality of place identity: A systematic concept analysis and framework of place-related identity elements12
Differentiating mental health promotion effects of various bluespaces: An electroencephalography study12
Immersion in nature decreases neural sensitivity to extrinsic reward12
Cultivating connectedness: Effects of an app-based compassion meditation course on changes in global identity, nature connectedness, and pro-environmental behaviour12
Introducing and testing the personal-collective-governmental efficacy typology: How personal, collective, and governmental efficacy subtypes are associated with differential environmental actions12
The cross-cultural challenges of integrating personal norms into the Theory of Planned Behavior: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) approach12
Effects of virtual agent interactivity on pro-environmental behavior promotion12
Greater perceived access to green spaces near homes: Safer and more satisfied residents12
Anger consensus messaging can enhance expectations for collective action and support for climate mitigation12
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]12
The Tree Task: An incentivized, one-shot decision task to study pro-environmental behavior12
Implicit reminders of reputation and nature reduce littering more than explicit information on injunctive norms and monetary costs11
Water bottles or tap water? A descriptive-social-norm based intervention to increase a pro-environmental behavior in a restaurant11
Botanical priming helps overcome plant blindness on a memory task11
Food for future: The impact of menu design on vegetarian food choice and menu satisfaction in a hypothetical hospital setting11
Independent mobility and outdoor play time: Insights from urban informal settlements in India11
Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action11
Climate anxiety: What predicts it and how is it related to climate action?11
Mindfulness disposition as a protective factor against stress in Antarctica: A potential countermeasure for long-duration spaceflight?11
The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing11
Exploring psychological restoration in favorite indoor and outdoor urban places using a top-down perspective11
Policy attributes, perceived impacts, and climate change policy preferences11
Is the political divide on climate change narrower for people of color? Evidence from a decade of U.S. polling11
Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples11
Menu design approaches to promote sustainable vegetarian food choices when dining out11
Eco-anxiety and climate-anxiety linked to indirect exposure: A scoping review of empirical research11
Keep Degrowth or go Rebirth? Regulatory focus theory and the support for a sustainable downscaling of production and consumption11
Structural deviations drive an uncanny valley of physical places11
Come in please: a virtual reality study on entrance design factors influencing the experience of hospitality11
Can an observational training improve the ability of children to navigate in familiar and unfamiliar environments?11
The use of virtual reality in environment experiences and the importance of realism11
Intergenerational transmission of environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behavior: A dyadic relationship10
Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.10
A systematic review of the psychological distance of climate change: Towards the development of an evidence-based construct10
The role of perceptual and decisional narrowing in replicating (and failing to replicate) the single-piece-of-litter effect10
The irreplaceable value of air travel to in-person conferences10
Can organizations shape eco-friendly employees? Organizational support improves pro-environmental behaviors at work10
The mediating role of residential time perspective between regional decline and place attachment10
Are consumers more or less averse to wasting organic food?10
Individual Transilience in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic10
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The limited impact of positive cueing on pro-environmental choices10
How to attract employees back to the office? A stated choice study on hybrid working preferences10
Let's stay together – The mediating role of self-congruity and place attachment on residents' likelihood to stay10
Understanding individual and diffusion behaviors related to native plant gardening10
Does message content interact with the physical environment? An exploratory study on the influence of noise and noise-related visual cues on message elaboration10
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The role of psychological food involvement in explaining the intention to reduce meat consumption10
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