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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) symptoms in children are relieved after spending time in nature. The greener the setting, the more the relief. When parents with children with ADD were asked to list the activities...

Taylor, Andrea Faber, Frances E. Kuo, and William C. Sullivan. “Coping with Add.” Environment and Behavior 33, no. 1 (2001): 54–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139160121972864.

A study of low-income urban children before and after moving to different homes found that children whose new homes had the greatest increase in views of greenery and nature also had the highest levels of cognitive...

Wells, Nancy M. (2000). At home with nature: Effects of “greenness” on children’s cognitive functioning. Environment and Behavior, 32, 775-795. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139160021972793

Residents at a Chicago public housing development living in buildings with more trees and grass reported that they knew their neighbors better, socialized with them more often, had stronger feelings of community...

Kuo, Frances E., William C. Sullivan, Rebekah Levine Coley, and Liesette Brunson. (1998). Fertile ground for community: Inner-city neighborhood common spaces. American Journal of Community Psychology, 26(6), 823-851.

An experiment with 160 college student participants suggested that driving through forested scenery may help reduce stress from previous stressors and reduce stress response to subsequent stressors.

Parsons, Russ, Louis G. Tassinary, Roger S. Ulrich, Michelle R. Hebl, and Michele Grossman-Alexander. (1998). The view from the road: Implications for stress recovery and immunization. Journal of Environmental Psychology 18(2), 113–140.

Children with access to unsupervised outdoor play opportunities have more developed motor skills, social behavior, independence, and conflict resolution skills than children without access to these opportunities.

Marco Hüttenmoser. (1995). Children and their living surroundings: Empirical investigation into the significance of living surroundings for the everyday life and development of children. Children’s Environments, 12, 403–413.

A review of studies in environmental psychology and neuroscience suggests that natural environments contain many of the necessary ingredients for restoring individuals fatigued from prolonged, focused mental effort...

Kaplan, Stephen. (1995). The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 15(3): 169-182.

Regular use of gardens reduced instances of aggressive behavior in dementia patients, according to a study that compared incident reports for facilities with various landscapes and exterior environments.

Mooney, Patrick. and P. Lenore Nicell. (1992). The Importance of Exterior Environment for Alzheimer Residents: Effective Care and Risk Management. Healthcare Management Forum 5, 2: 23-29.

In hospital recovery rooms, recovering surgery patients with window views looking out upon trees had 10% shorter hospital stays, took fewer potent pain killers during their recovery, and had fewer negative notes...

Ulrich, Roger. “View through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery.” Science 224, no. 4647 (1984): 224–225. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6143402.

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