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{"title":"How might outdoor and natural environments support children's self-regulation of attention and behaviour? A scoping review of candidate mediating pathways","authors":"G. Goldenberg,&nbsp;S.V. Wass","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103187","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103187","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several recent systematic reviews suggest that children exposed to outdoor and natural environments show better attention and behavioural self-regulation. However, less is known about the mechanisms that might explain these associations. This scoping review maps candidate mediating pathways linking outdoor and natural environments with children's self-regulation of attention and behaviour. We examine evidence relating to six environmental features: auditory and visual noise, signal-to-noise ratios, natural features such as plants and trees, space and movement, microbiota diversity, and natural light. For each pathway, we consider whether the environmental feature plausibly differs across outdoor, natural, indoor or urban contexts; whether it is associated with proposed mediators including physiological stress, attentional demand, affect, sleep, and microbiota; and whether these mediators are associated with self-regulation outcomes. The review shows that evidence is uneven. Some pathways, particularly those involving stress, affect, movement and light, are supported by substantial adjacent evidence, but few studies directly test full mediating pathways in children. Other pathways, including signal-to-noise ratios and microbiota, are theoretically plausible but currently under-investigated. Future research should measure candidate mediators directly, compare mechanisms across timescales, and distinguish effects of being outdoors from effects of specific environmental features. This mechanistic approach is important for designing interventions that may reproduce some benefits of outdoor and natural environments in educational settings where access to high-quality natural space is limited.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103187"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148854539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Greenwashing training fosters a general skepticism toward advertisements","authors":"Philipp von Sicherer,&nbsp;Gordon Pennycook","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Training interventions have been proposed as a countermeasure against greenwashing. However, there is no clear consensus on their effectiveness. In an effort to contribute to a better understanding, we examined the impact of greenwashing training on consumers’ ability to discern greenwashing using an online survey experiment designed to resolve ecological and internal validity issues of past work (<em>N</em> = 518). Additionally, we extended the scope by exploring whether greenwashing training also affects healthwashing detection. Our study revealed that greenwashing training can make consumers more likely to perceive advertisements featuring deceptive environmental claims correctly as greenwashing but can also make them more likely to misperceive advertisements without such claims as greenwashing. Furthermore, it showed that although healthwashing is not the subject of greenwashing training, the triggered skepticism can transfer to healthwashing perceptions, too. Overall, these findings suggest that greenwashing training does not enhance greenwashing detection proficiency but rather promotes excessive suspicion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103190"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148854549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Re-investigation of human performance in open-plan offices: The restorative impact of plant quantity and access to window views following ego-depletion","authors":"Xi Zhang,&nbsp;Jiangtao Du","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103171","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103171","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing research has applied nature-based interventions to improve mental well-being and productivity in offices. However, how typical design characteristics, such as plant quantity and window view access, support attention restoration following ego-depletion in open-plan offices remains unclear. Furthermore, studies conducted in Chinese offices remain particularly scarce. This study conducted four randomised controlled experiments within a virtual open-plan office to investigate the restorative effects of indoor plant quantity and access to nature and urban window views on participants’ performance following ego-depletion. Furthermore, the effects of these interventions were compared. The four experiments included 132 (58.3% female), 126 (57.9% female), 134 (57.4% female), and 96 (52.1% female) participants, respectively. Their performances were measured using biometric sensors (physiological indices: heart rate variability (HRV) &amp; electrodermal activity (EDA)), Psychomotor Vigilance task and Stroop tests (cognition), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (mood), and a self-developed questionnaire (affective qualities &amp; satisfaction). Results revealed that indoor plants (all amount levels) improved HRV and lowered EDA following ego-depletion; however, they did not affect mood and cognition. Furthermore, only a large amount enhanced affective qualities. In addition, medium and high access to nature window views reduced EDA and improved affective qualities. However, only high and medium window access increased positive and reduced negative mood, respectively. Access to urban window views improved HRV and affective qualities, while only medium access lowered EDA. Thus, plants were superior to window views in physiological and attentional restoration, whereas window views elicited higher positive affective ratings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103171"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148940511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sources of outdoor air pollution exposure and child brain network development across the United States","authors":"Katherine L. Bottenhorn,&nbsp;Kirthana Sukumaran,&nbsp;Amanda C. Del Giacco,&nbsp;Hedyeh Ahmadi,&nbsp;Jordan D. Corbett,&nbsp;Alethea V. de Jesus,&nbsp;Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez,&nbsp;Rima Habre,&nbsp;Daniel A. Hackman,&nbsp;Joel Schwartz,&nbsp;Jiu-Chiuan Chen,&nbsp;Megan M. Herting","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ambient fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) pollution is a heterogeneous mixture of neurotoxic chemicals. Neuroimaging studies have linked childhood PM_2.5 exposure to altered brain morphology, microarchitecture, and function, with implications for cognition and psychopathology. However, this literature is largely cross-sectional and often considers PM_2.5 a single pollutant, rather than a mixture of chemicals from different sources. Here, we address these gaps by leveraging exposure estimates for six data-derived PM_2.5 sources, and longitudinal neuroimaging data from the large, multi-site Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study in the United States. We used a predictive modeling approach to assess cross-sectional exposure-related differences in functional brain network connectivity (FC) during childhood (ages 9-11 years; <em>N</em> = 6291) and explore exposure-related changes in FC during the transition to adolescence (ages 9-13 years; <em>N</em> = 1972) for each source of PM_2.5, as well as their cross-site generalizability. Instead of highlighting a few networks particularly sensitive to exposure, these analyses identified themes in consistently exposure-related connectivity of sensorimotor networks and the triple network model. Exposure-related differences in visual, auditory, and somatomotor network connectivity related to traffic, crustal materials, ammonium nitrates, and total PM_2.5 were consistent with prior epidemiological reports of exposure-related auditory, visual, and motor difficulties. Connectivity of higher-order associative networks in the “triple network model” of psychopathology was largely related to secondary aerosols (i.e., ammonium sulfates, nitrates), consistent with potential links to mental health conditions that may arise later in adolescence or adulthood. While these analyses identified consistent exposure-related FC patterns across iterations, they did not generalize well to data from held-out sites (i.e., mean <em>R</em>² &lt; 0), especially in the western United States.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103166"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148854538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seeing Earth, saving Earth? The Overview Effect and its role in inspiring environmental protection — A scoping review","authors":"Laura Krug,&nbsp;Laura Henn,&nbsp;Laura S. Loy","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global challenges, including environmental issues such as climate change, demand fundamental lifestyle changes. Since individual behaviour plays a crucial role in global environmental processes, fostering pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour is of great importance. Previous research has suggested that the Overview Effect (i.e., a set of psychological effects on people's cognitions, emotions, or behaviours after witnessing Earth from above), whether in reality or through simulation, has the potential to inspire a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. This scoping review seeks to map which concrete effects after witnessing Earth from above have been empirically examined so far, focussing on pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour, while also identifying other associated variables (e.g., awe, self-transcendence, connectedness). A systematic search revealed 32 records with 34 individual studies in two categories: astronaut experiences and simulation experiences. Empirical findings from astronauts who have viewed Earth from space support an increase in pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour. However, studies examining simulation experiences have yielded inconclusive results, suggesting a need for further research. Building on the recommendations from previous studies on the virtually induced Overview Effect, future research should use randomised controlled designs and longitudinal assessments, refine virtual reality simulations, and advance validated measures in order to better understand its potential to promote environmental protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103186"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148854536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resilient by design? A systematic literature review on place, planning and perception in social-ecological systems","authors":"Sarah Kehler,&nbsp;S. Jeff Birchall","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Place-based adaptation shows potential to safeguard the well-being of communities facing climate change impacts. However, its implementation is complicated by conceptual ambiguity surrounding “place” and limited understanding of its role in adaptation. Broadly, adaptation efforts often result in maladaptation – when adaptation causes unintended negative consequences. Maladaptation often arises from differences in individual perception, mediated by worldview and institutions guiding knowledge and values, which complicates planning processes for interdependent social and ecological systems. This systematic literature review aims to elucidate the role of place and perception in effective adaptation planning by consolidating research linking perception with place relationships and social-ecological systems (SES). Peer-reviewed literature was retrieved through Web of Science, Scopus and ProQuest. Screening of 835 unique publications resulted in a set of 163 articles that met predefined eligibility criteria. Database analysis revealed growing interest in the topic, spanning distinct journals, disciplines and authors. Articles predominantly found place relationships within SES were reciprocal and fostered resilience, regardless of landscape type. However, place was frequently undefined, planning featured only minorly, and data on perception could not be generalized. Addressing this ambiguity, thematic narrative analysis revealed place and perception are co-produced within SES. We argue that place is a biocultural adaptation which grounds knowledge and values in spatially-oriented ontologies, and drives transformation and resilience in SES. When planning and design strategies disrupt place relationships, maladaptation ensues. Our conclusions highlight how, to avoid maladaptation, the biocultural role of planning in place and SES must be understood. In this way, it may be possible to foster place relationships and truly plan for resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103189"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148854546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transition Pathways Scale (TPS): A new framework for assessing environmental attitudes","authors":"Jeremy Matrot,&nbsp;Pierre De Oliveira,&nbsp;Laurent Auzoult-Chagnault","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents the development and validation of Transition Pathway Scale (TPS) designed to measure different strategies for adapting to climate change. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature, three strategies, referred to here as ‘transition pathways’, are proposed, ranging from the preservation of current lifestyles to their radical transformation, with an intermediate pathway involving only limited adjustment (i.e., acceptance, incrementalism, transformation). Building on the value–action gap framework, these pathways are conceptualized as distinct modes of regulating a tension between preserving the existing system to varying degrees (i.e., acceptance and incrementalism) and radically transforming it (i.e., transformation). Furthermore, the underlying structure of these pathways is examined through the lens of ideological processes, particularly those that tend to maintain the status quo. The aim of this scale was to overcome the limitations of scales that treat attitudes and behaviors as homogeneous constructs. In total, four samples (N = 1540) were used to construct (Sample A) and validate the scale (Samples B, C, and D). Factor analyses confirmed the three pathways with good fit indices after reducing the scale from 12 to 9 items. Our results show that transition pathways reflect distinct ideological orientations: acceptance aligns with motivations to preserve the status quo, primarily through adherence to norms and traditions; incrementalism corresponds to limited change that protects existing structures; and radicalism is hindered both by hierarchy-supporting beliefs and by adherence to norms and traditions, thereby highlighting how system-justifying ideologies shape individuals' preferred responses to climate change. Finally, the limits are discussed, specifically on cross-cultural variations wich are not examined.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103191"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148854548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Change in flood and climate risk perceptions after the 2021 flood in Germany: A panel study","authors":"Jonathan Ulrich,&nbsp;Astrid Kause","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With climate change, people increasingly experience extreme weather events. This requires ambitious adaptation on individual and collective levels. At the same time, right-wing populism is on the rise. This may come with climate change skepticism that may also affect flood and climate change risk perceptions. Using longitudinal data from the German Green-SOEP panel (n = 2744), we assessed how flood and climate risk perceptions, as well as perceptions of the importance of protection from climate change changed between 2020 and 2022, and how this change linked to the experience of a severe flood in 2021 and to political orientation. Personal and general flood risk perceptions increased, but not for people who identified with the climate-skeptical party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) in 2022. Personal flood risk perceptions, but not general flood risk perceptions, increased more for people who experienced the 2021 flood than for those who did not. This pattern did not extend to climate risk perceptions and the perceived importance of protection from climate change, which did not increase, not even among those who experienced the 2021 flood. For those who identified with the AfD in 2022, they even decreased. Future research, as well as climate risk communications and climate change adaptation efforts, need to address these dynamics of change in responses to floods and possibly extreme weather events across different population subgroups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103129"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148941122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Testing the anger and the being-moved path to anti-wind farm protest: The role of distributive justice and collective efficacy","authors":"Mariam Katsarava,&nbsp;Robert Gaschler,&nbsp;Helen Landmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building on established evidence that perceived injustice and collective efficacy motivate collective action, the extended version of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action incorporates emotions - anger and feelings of being moved - as mediators. To test these paths experimentally, participants were exposed to valid information about distributive justice or collective efficacy in the form of authentic text (Study 1, <em>N</em> = 473) or videos (Study 2, <em>N</em> = 168). They then rated their emotions, action intentions, and appraisals regarding the construction of wind farms. In both studies, exposure to information about injustice and collective efficacy led to stronger feelings of anger. Additionally, participants showed higher intentions to punish those responsible for wind farm construction in response to information about injustice, compared to collective efficacy and neutral conditions. In Study 1, the injustice conditions had both a direct and an indirect effect (via anger) on the intention to punish. Study 2 replicated these findings, confirming that anger significantly mediated the link between the injustice condition and punitive intentions. However, across both studies, being moved did not significantly mediate the relationship between collective efficacy and intention to participate in the anti-wind movements. Taken together, the results provide experimental evidence for the relevance of the anger path of the <em>Extended Model of Collective Action</em> in explaining the influence of (in)justice-related information on anti-wind movement intentions. On a practical level, addressing perceptions of (in)justice and emotions may help reduce anti-wind movement intentions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103177"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148941121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unpacking dynamic norms: Identifying key elements of dynamic norms and a meta-analysis of their effects on pro-environmental behaviour","authors":"Fernanda M. Reintgen Kamphuisen,&nbsp;Thijs Bouman,&nbsp;Ellen van der Werff","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103060","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, dynamic norms have been introduced as a motivator for pro-environmental behaviour by highlighting that the prevalence or approval of a behaviour is changing. However, operationalisations of dynamic norms vary considerably across studies. Perhaps as a consequence, the impact of dynamic norms on pro-environmental behaviour is inconsistent. This meta-analysis (79 studies from 49 articles) investigates the overall effect of dynamic norms on pro-environmental behaviour, and whether differences in operationalisations affect dynamic norms’ effects. For this, we identify five key elements of dynamic norms: (1) the reference group, (2) the (pro-environmental) behaviour performed or approved by the reference group, (3) the direction of change, (4) the subject of change, and (5) the strength of change (i.e., rate and persistence of change). Results show that while overall effects of dynamic norms on pro-environmental behaviour were very small (<em>r =</em> .03 - .10, across different analytical approaches), effects indeed differed between operationalisations of these elements. Dynamic norms were more effective when they referred to general reference groups rather than to specific ones, used proscriptive rather than prescriptive messages (i.e., the direction of change), emphasised people, or a combination of people and behaviour, rather than behaviour alone as the subject of change, and when framed over shorter rather than longer timeframes (i.e., a proxy for strength of change). Further, dynamic norms combining descriptive and injunctive appeals were more effective than those relying on a descriptive appeal alone. Recognising key elements of dynamic norms advances theoretical understanding of dynamic norms, informs future research, and provides crucial insights into their practical applicability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103060"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148941120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}