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Seresinhe, Chanuki Illushka, Preis, Tobias, MacKerron, George and Moat, Helen Susannah (2019) Happiness is greater in more scenic locations. Scientific Reports, 9 (1). 4498 . doi:10.1038/s41598-019-40854-6 ISSN 2045-2322.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40854-6
Abstract
Does spending time in beautiful settings boost people’s happiness? The answer to this question has long remained elusive due to a paucity of large-scale data on environmental aesthetics and individual happiness. Here, we draw on two novel datasets: first, individual happiness data from the smartphone app, Mappiness, and second, crowdsourced ratings of the “scenicness” of photographs taken across England from the online game Scenic-Or-Not. We find that individuals are happier in more scenic locations, even when we account for a range of factors such as the activity the individual was engaged in at the time, weather conditions and the income of local inhabitants. Crucially, this relationship holds not only in natural environments, but in built-up areas too, even after controlling for the presence of green space. Our results provide evidence that the aesthetics of the environments that policymakers choose to build or demolish may have consequences for our everyday wellbeing.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Happiness, Landscapes -- Psychological aspects | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Reports | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Nature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2045-2322 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article Number: | 4498 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-019-40854-6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 March 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 March 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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