{"id":155,"date":"2003-12-02T01:21:13","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T01:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:41","slug":"scenic-route-means-less-stressed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"scenic route means less stressed-out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The calming influence of nature may even work on  stressed-out drivers. Jack Nasar and Jean Marie Cackowski of Ohio State  University report in the November issue of <em>Environment and Behavior<\/em> that  people who viewed a videotape of a scenic drive down a tree-lined road  scored lower on a frustration test than those who saw a drive through an  urban area filled with buildings and utility poles. The researchers  first had participants take a difficult, 10-minute test that was meant  to stress them, and the subjects&#8217; frustration levels were then tested.  The subjects then watched three different tapes of a view through the  front windshield of a car. &#8220;Scenic Parkway&#8221; showed a four-lane roadway  through a wooded area, &#8220;Garden Highway&#8221; showed a six-lane highway with  relatively few buildings and utility poles, and &#8220;Built-Up Highway&#8221;  featured a drive through an area of strip malls with little vegetation.  The viewers&#8217; frustration levels were measured again. Even though &#8220;Scenic  Parkway&#8221; had the most congested traffic, its viewers had the lowest  frustration scores. &#8220;This suggests that the scenic views [. . .] had a  restorative, calming effect on those who watched it. If these people  were less frustrated, it may translate into a real behavioral  difference,&#8221; Cackowski stated. The researchers acknowledged that the  study was not a realistic driving experience, but, Nasar stated, &#8220;The  fact that we got results even with this simple study suggest there may  be real effects.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 12\/02\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The calming influence of nature may even work on stressed-out drivers. Jack Nasar and Jean Marie Cackowski of Ohio State University report in the November issue of Environment and Behavior that people who viewed a videotape of a scenic drive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}