Selected Publication for The Natural Environment + Human Well-Being

Celikors, E & Wells, NM (in press).  Are low-level visual features of scenes associated with perceived restorative qualities? Journal of Environmental Psychology

Wells, N.M.  (2021). The natural environment as a resilience factor: Nature’s role as a buffer of the effects of risk and adversity. In: A. Schutte, J. Stevens & J. Torquati (Eds.), Nature and Psychology: How the Natural World Shapes our Cognition.  67th Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation.  The University of Nebraska. Springer Science + Business Media.

Li, D., Menotti, T. and Ding, Y., Wells, NM (2021).  Evaluating the Evidence for Life Course Nature Exposure and Mental Health Outcomes: A systematic review and Future Directions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (10), 5146.

Wells, NM Rollings, KA, Ong, AD, & Reid, MC (2019).  Nearby nature buffers the pain catastrophizing-pain intensity relation among urban residents with chronic pain. Frontiers in Built Environment, 5, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2019.00142

Razani, N, Niknam, K, Kennedy, G, Thompson, D, Hills, N, Wells, NM, Rutherford, G, and Gilgoff, R (2019).  Clinic and park partnerships for childhood resilience: a prospective study of park prescriptions. Health & Place, 57, 179-185.

Wells, N.M. and Lekies, K.S. (2012).  Children and nature:  following the trail to environmental attitudes and behavior. In: J. Dickinson and R. Bonney (Eds.) Citizen Science: public collaboration in environmental research.  (pp. 201-213). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 

Wells, N.M. and Lekies, K.S. (2006).  Nature and the Life Course:  Pathways from childhood nature experiences to adult environmentalism.  Children, Youth, and Environment, 16 (1), 1-24. 

Wells, N.M. and Evans, G.W. (2003).  Nearby Nature:  A buffer of life stress among rural children?  Environment and Behavior, 35 (3), 311-330. doi: 10.1177/0013916503035003001

Wells, N.M. (2000).  At home with nature: effects of “greenness” on children’s cognitive functioning.  Environment and Behavior, 32(6), 775-795. doi: 10.1177/00139160021972793