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