Environment - AllPsych http://blog.allpsych.com/tag/environment/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:56:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Environment - AllPsych http://blog.allpsych.com/tag/environment/ 32 32 Personality Influences People’s Environmentally Friendly Behaviors https://allpsych.com/personality-influences-peoples-environmentally-friendly-behaviors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personality-influences-peoples-environmentally-friendly-behaviors Mon, 11 May 2020 23:33:48 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2574 With a constant stream of news about coronavirus, it’s easy to overlook the disconcerting news that continues to come out regularly about another global crisis: climate change. Most recently, a study was released suggesting that the number of extreme heat and humidity events with the capacity to kill human beings has doubled since 1979. For…

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]]> What a Connection to Nature Means for Kids https://allpsych.com/what-a-connection-to-nature-means-for-kids/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-a-connection-to-nature-means-for-kids Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:18:33 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2499 It’s a common complaint that kids these days don’t get outside enough. There may be something to that claim, as well, with parents of 8 to 12 year olds saying in one survey that their children spent three times as much time playing on screens as playing outside. Intuitively, you might suspect that children who…

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]]> Can Natural Sounds Recharge the Brain? https://allpsych.com/can-natural-sounds-recharge-the-brain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-natural-sounds-recharge-the-brain Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:59:40 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1790 Buy a CD of music for relaxation, and there’s a good chance it’ll feature running water, chirping birds and rustling leaves. Instinctively, it makes sense to us that the sounds of nature should be refreshing for the mind. This idea hasn’t been lost on psychology researchers. A range of studies have investigated whether natural sounds…

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]]> Climate Change Has Mental Health Costs Too https://allpsych.com/climate-change-has-mental-health-costs-too/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climate-change-has-mental-health-costs-too Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:29:14 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1764 This week, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have a window of 12 years before our chance to limit global warming to a 1.5C rise in temperatures slips away. Failing to cap global warming at 1.5C would mean more severe food and water shortages, more poverty, more severe weather, more heat-related…

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