Herzog, T.R., C.P. Maguire & M.B. Nebel, 2003, Assessing the restorative components of envoronments, in: Journal of Environmental Psychology, , 2
- Author : Herzog, T.R., C.P. Maguire & M.B. Nebel
- Year : 2003
- Journal/Series : Journal of Environmental Psychology
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 2
- Pages : 159-170
- Abstract in English : Attention restoration theory (ART) holds that intensive or prolonged use of directed attention, leads to fatigue of the mechanisms that serve it. The person is then said to be in a state of mental fatigue. Recovery of effective functioning is enabled by setting that have certain properties discussed in this paper. Such settings are known as restorative settings. The benefits of a deeply restorative experience include clearing away of mental noise, recovery of directed attention capacity, and enhanced ability to reflection issues of importance. Ordinary natural environments are thought to be especially effective as restorative settings. The authors are dealing with the four components of a restorative environment proposed by ART: being away, extent, fascination, and compatibility.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: being away, extent, fascination, compatibility