Do natural landscapes reduce future discounting in humans?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1773, 2013, Pages

  van der Wal, Arianne J ^a   Schade, Hannah M ^a   Krabbendam, Lydia ^a   van Vugt, Mark ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biophilia; Evolutionary psychology; Life history; Nature; Sustainabili; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFESTYLE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; BIOPHILIA; DELAY DISCOUNTING; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY;

BIOPHILIA; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; NATURE; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPORAL DISCOUNTING;

ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902658960     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2295     Document Type: Article

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