The confinements linked to the Covid-19 health crisis could not have offered better observational studies to social psychologists: nature (and space in general) was greatly missed by city dwellers locked in apartments without a garden. Thus, 69% of French people over 18 said they lacked green spaces during the first confinement (YouGov survey, June 2020). “
You only have to look at the boom in demand for houses with gardens in medium-sized towns and / or purchases of second homes in small country villages hitherto shunned by city dwellers, to understand how point those locked between 4 walls suffered from the confinement and the lack of greenery
»Remarks Nicolas Guéguen, psychologist and teacher-researcher at the University of South Brittany, co-author with Sébastien Meineri, teacher in social psychology (South Brittany) of
Why nature makes us good
(ed. Dunod).
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