The Nature of Peak Experience in Wilderness

By M. McDonald, S. Wearing, J. Ponting. 2009

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. L. le Grange
2. Karen J. Esler
3. A. Knight
4. M. Zylstra

In Social Psychology

1. L. le Grange
2. Karen J. Esler
3. A. Knight
4. M. Zylstra

Citations in the corpus

• Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern: An Interdisciplinary Review of Theory and a Call for Practice (2014, background): “Under certain conditions, CWN acts as a trigger for spiritual, self-transcendence, and unifying experiences [28, 47, 87, 153, 154, 192].”
• Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being (2013, background): “, intense situations inspiring transcendental or joyful states) indicates that nature-based activities that test the limits of skill and capability, such as mountain climbing or white-water rafting, are associated with a heightened sense of control and can produce transcendent experiences (106, 107)”