The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

By D. Dutton. 2008

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• Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being (2014, background): “For instance, prior research has found that landscapes that contain greater elements of water, depth of field, and vegetation are often perceived as more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing than landscape that contain less of these characteristics (Dutton, 2009; Herzog, 1985; Kaltenborn & Bjerke, 2”