ND-0540 · 2019 · Other
Reduction of physiological stress by urban green space in a multisensory virtual experiment
Hedblom, Gunnarsson, Iravani et al. Scientific Reports. 2019.
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46099-7 · Finding drafted from the abstract
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What the source reports
A virtual park and forest, but not an urban area, gave significant stress reduction, and smell may have worked better than sight.
Limitations
Virtual experiment.
Design questions and applications
Consider smell as well as sight in urban planting.
Field
Urban green and stress
Notes and follow-up
Added from the Corpus Desk (card hedblom-2019-multisensory) on 2026-11-09. Evidence strength and translation distance not yet rated. WELL label held for review.
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Spatial variable
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