Nature is frequently operationalized as greenery or water to estimate the restorativeness of the environment. Pursuing a deeper understanding of the connection between representation of naturalness and its relationship with restoration, we conducted an experiment aimed to investigate if the sky is perceived as an element of nature. The main goal of this study was to understand how composition of the environment guides people’s selection of sky as nature in an explicit task. Moreover, we investigated how the amount of visible sky determines this relationship.
The project was conducted by Lise Meitner Group For Environmental Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
The content of this project is a subject of following papers and preregistrations:
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* Preregistration: Nature Gradient (#99664)