A view of trees from your apartment measurably reduces aggression in adults and improves attention and self-control in children. Random assignment to nature-view apartments showed lower crime rates and better focus. Even brief nature breaks restore the attention needed to control impulses.
There have been studies with nature and aggression. And so these are really, really interesting studies. It turns out the families that had the modest views of nature, the kids had better attention, they had better self control. In the adults, there was lower aggression, better attention, and lower reported crime. And what's interesting too, this is just like the Roger Ulrich study. It's not like the wealthier, more educated families got the views of nature. These, these families are just randomly assigned to these different apartments. And it had this significant impact on behavior. So I think what's going on there is that when people go out and get a nature break, they're restoring their directed attention and they have more ability to control, to control impulses.
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