Visits to urban parks and woodlands were associated with higher self-reported creativity than visits to a built-up city centre, though park-versus-woodland differences were not significant¶
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q2 i? Finnish adults reported significantly higher creativity after visiting an urban park and extensive urban woodland area compared to a built-up city centre, with no significant difference between park and woodland. → Vella-Brodrick 2024
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Vella-Brodrick 2024¶
Vella-Brodrick, D. A., Lewis, K. J., & Gilowska, K. (2024). Exploring the Nature-Creativity Connection Across Different Settings: A Scoping Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09964-0
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The review reports this within-subjects experiment in which 77 adults walked in a park, woodland, and urban centre, reporting "significantly higher levels of creativity" in the green settings on a self-report survey. No effect size is printed.
"Tyrvainen et al.'s (2014) study on 77 Finnish adults found significantly higher levels of creativity when participants visited an urban park and extensive urban woodland area, compared to when they visited a built-up city center."
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Visits to urban parks and woodlands were associated with higher self-reported creativity than visits to a built-up city centre, though park-versus-woodland differences were not significant |
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Visits to urban parks and woodlands were associated with higher self-reported creativity than visits to a built-up city centre, though park-versus-woodland differences were not significant |
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