Conceptualising creativity benefits of nature experience: Attention restoration and mind wandering as complementary processes

By K. Williams, Kate E. Lee, T. Hartig, Leisa D. Sargent, N. Williams, Katherine A. Johnson. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2018

111 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Accumulating evidence indicates that time spent in natural environments promotes creativity, but few researchers have considered how this occurs. We evaluate two candidate mechanisms, attention res ...

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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1. K. Williams
2. Terri Peters
3. Kate E. Lee
4. Kristen D'Penna
5. Leisa D. Sargent
6. Katherine A. Johnson
7. J. Rayner
8. N. Williams

Citations in the corpus

• Biophilic Design for Restorative University Learning Environments: A Critical Review of Literature and Design Recommendations (2020, background): “Exposure to nature has been shown to promote positive mind-wandering or daydreaming [37] and creativity [38].”
• Appraising the psychological benefits of green roofs for city residents and workers (2019, background): “, 2015) – is important for problem solving and selfregulation (Kaplan and Berman, 2010) and so has been linked to improved creativity (Williams et al., 2018), work performance (Hartig et al.”