ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2010, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 177-184.

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The Research on Restorative Environments: Theories、Methods and Advances

SU Qian; XIN Zi-Qiang   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
  • Received:2009-05-10 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2010-01-15 Published:2010-01-15
  • Contact: XIN Zi-Qiang

Abstract: Restorative environment is one recent focus of environmental psychology. According to restorative effects, attention restorative and psycho-evolutionary theory think restorative environment refers to the environments that help people overcome mental fatigue and negative emotion brought by stress. Varied types of results, which comprise restorative effect, restoration influencing factor, relation between restoration and preference, eye movement features in fascination as well as clinical effects, have already been obtained. Future studies should strive to forward theory and research design, validity verification of scales and the application of study results.

Key words: restorative environments, emotion, attention