Meditation, Restoration, and the Management of Mental Fatigue

By Stephen Kaplan. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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A Comparison of Leisure Time Spent in a Garden with Leisure Time Spent Indoors: On Measures of Restoration in Residents in Geriatric Care (2005, background): “The theory regarding effects on the ability to concentrate, the Attention Restoration Theory (ART), was developed by Rachel and Stephen Kaplan (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989).”
The effect of “green exercise” on state anxiety and the role of exercise duration, intensity, and greenness: A quasi-experimental study (2010, background): “Attention restoration theory refers to how our direct attention mechanism, which is largely under voluntary and effortful control, becomes fatigued (Kaplan, 2001b).”
Guest Editors’ introduction: Restorative environments (2003, background): “In these respects, the articles in this issue join with those in the recent special issue of Environment and Behavior (Hartig, Kaiser, & Bowler, 2001; R. Kaplan, 2001; S. Kaplan, 2001; Korpela et al., 2001; Kuo & Sullivan, 2001) in marking the current contours and concerns of the research area.”
The effects of urban retail greenery on consumer experience: Reviewing the evidence from a restorative perspective (2010, background): “This, however, makes that being attentive to and searching for the objects one is looking for can become a highly effortful activity, prone to lead to Directed Attention Fatigue (S. Kaplan, 2001).”
Cognitive and affective responses to natural scenes: Effects of low level visual properties on preference, cognitive load and eye-movements (2015, background): “…Theory about the order of events leading to restoration, with the former theorizing that changes in cognitive resources lead to changes in affect (Kaplan, 1995; 2001), and the latter theorizing that changes in affect lead to changes in attention and cognitive resources (Ulrich, 1983).”
Biophilic design and office planting: a case study of effects on perceived health, well-being and performance metrics in the workplace (2020, background): “Indoor plants are thereby by their presence relaxing subjects and improving their cognitive functioning (Kaplan, 2001; Grinde and Patil, 2009; Brown, 2019).”
The Restorative Environment: A Complementary Concept for Salutogenesis Studies (2017, background): “Kaplan (2001) indicated that meditation practice in a natural environment might facilitate and deepen the meditative state by supporting effortless attention (i.e., fascination), which is also considered to be a characteristic component of mindfulness-type meditation (i.e., detached curiosity; Lau…”
Meditating for the Planet: Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Sustainable Consumption Behaviors (2020, background): “Further positive effects of mindfulness practice are reported with regard to neurocognitive functions (Malinowski, 2013; Tang, Hölzel, & Posner, 2015), attention restoration (Kaplan, 2001; Lymeus, Lindberg, & Hartig, 2018), physical and mental well-being (Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Walach, 2004),”
The Role of Natural Settings in Crisis Rehabilitation: How Does the Level of Crisis Influence the Response to Experiences of Nature with Regard to Measures of Rehabilitation? (2008, background): “Humans can quickly and easily deal with millions of informational stimuli from nature: ‘soft fascination’ (Kaplan, 2001; van den Berg et al., 2007).”
Nature and health. (2014, background): “Over time, they apply this knowledge to better manage adaptive resources such as attentional capacity (69, 73, 116).”
Its the little things that matter: an examination of knowledge workers energy management (2011, neutral): “We also found it interesting that other strategies often discussed in the popular press, such as napping, writing in a journal, and going outside for fresh air or being close to nature (Cable News Network, 2008; Kaplan, 2001) were related neither to vitality nor to fatigue.”