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Noah Fried @noahfried.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very excited to announce that my first paper is now published in Landscape & Urban Planning!📄✨We investigated which kinds of blue spaces and environmental qualities are most beneficial for psychological restoration and nature connectedness across 19 countries.🌊🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The restorative power of blue spaces: A 19-country study

Living in urbanised areas can deplete cognitive and emotional resources. To help restore them, many people seek out natural locations. Blue spaces (e.…

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🌍 Happy International #MotherEarthDay! In line with this year’s theme “Our Power, Our Planet!”, we decided to design a collaborative planter for our office space—a little daily reminder of why we do our jobs: research and work together to facilitate a more sustainable relationship with nature! 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Last week Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the #Klimatag2026 in Vienna, presenting a poster on her current research using a large dataset from the Environment Agency of Austria. Take away: conflicting results suggest that not all #pro-environmental behaviours have the same relationship with #eco-anxiety.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What happens when products are labelled as containing chemicals that are #persistent, #mobile, or #toxic? In our new #ZeroPM project paper we show that PMT labels increase public concern and support for regulation. 🔬 Read here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Dr Melissa Marselle @melissamarselle.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thrilled to share our new #EnvironmentalResearch article! Our review investigates the mental health and wellbeing benefits associated with specific blue space types (e.g. coast, river) & characteristics (e.g. sounds). 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

📸 Photobooth at the @univie.ac.at Psychology Department's #Carnival Party. Happy belated festivities, or as you say in Austria “Lei Lei!” 🎉

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

At ANSES in Paris, Ellise Suffill presented her #ZeroPM work on integrating social data into the Essential Use Concept, followed by a roundtable on whether the consumer is always right and how to enable sustainable design. ♻️ #Chemicals #Pollution #Sustainability

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the group last year as a research assistant, where she supports a project on the risk perception of #microplastics. She is also writing her master’s thesis with the group, looking at how #eco-anxiety and different #pro-environmental behaviours are related to each other. 🏡

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Tatiana Shevel recently joined the Environmental Psychology Group as a #PhD student. In her research, she aims to bridge #sustainability science and #environmentalpsychology through the #inner_transformation approach. 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New year, new recap! 🗓️ 2025 was a pretty busy year for us and our EnvPsy Group at @univie.ac.at has grown quite significantly. We hope to keep this momentum going in 2026 and are already excited to share all the new projects & papers we have been working on!

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Seeing everyone’s Spotify Wrapped last year motivated us to put together our own playlist to send off 2025 and usher in 2026! (every member from our lab got to submit one song). 🎶 So, if you ever have the time and are in the mood to discover some new music, feel free to check out our playlist!

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🎵 Music can bring us together and motivate us to make a change. That’s why you should check out our Environmental Tunes 2025 Playlist for a collection of songs about the environment and/or protecting it! 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/3sM...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Kuni Saffana recently joined the team as a PhD student, having received funding by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency (LPDP) Scholarship. Her research will aim to advance the use of #psychometrics in #environmentalpsychology in order to promote conscious and responsible consumption

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Happy Holidays from the Environmental Psychology Vienna Lab! See you again in the new year. 🎄🎆

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Addi Wala works both in #urban #research and in applied participatory #urbandevelopment here in Vienna. He is our organisational assistant for the RESONATE project, as well as our communications and social media manager (meaning he had to write this in third person about himself 🤓).

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The movie was followed by a panel discussion with scientists and local politicians about emotions in the #ClimateCrisis and opportunities for participation in #ClimateProtection in Vienna; with Christina (on the left) providing valuable insights from the field of #EnvironmentalPsychology.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11th December)! #MountainsMatter 🌁 Earlier this month @Christina Barz took part in a panel discussion after the new #documentary by Harry Putz about melting #glaciers (“Requiem in Weiß”) was shown at Sargfabrik.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🎥 You can watch a recording of the RESONATE DACH-Region Spotlight Series through the following link: resonate-horizon.eu/nature-based...

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DACH Region – 19th November – Resonate

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

📸 The EnvPsy RESONATE Team recently visited the Gastein Healing Gallery, which is built into an old geothermal ore mining tunnel. The occasion: The RESONATE Spotlight Series, a symposium bringing together Nature-Therapy experts and enthusiasts from across the DACH-Region.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11 December)! #MountainsMatter – they are the world’s water towers and global action is needed to preserve #glaciers and #mountains for future generations.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🛜 Project Spotlight: GOLIAT 🏛️ Uni Vienna Team: Nina Vaupotič, Valeria Vitale, & Mathew White ⌛ Duration: 2022–2027 🌐 For more information visit: projectgoliat.eu

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GOLIAT

#ProjectGOLIAT is a ﬁve-year project aimed at providing responses to some of the questions raised by the new wireless technologies, with a special focus in 5G.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

@helenezillig.bsky.social visited the European School in Munich last month to answer questions and help students discover whether psychology is something they’re interested in—be it for their education, profession, or general future. 🎓

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Great news that this paper led by the fabulous @todorova.bsky.social is out now, a collaboration between the @scanunit.bsky.social and @envpsyvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. 👏 🎉 #EnvironmentalPsychology

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Today Mathew White from @envpsyvienna.bsky.social talks about work from @resonatenbt.bsky.social, and Jürgen Preiss from @wien.gv.at talks about #ClimateChange #Adaptation measures

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

@helenezillig.bsky.social presents her research at the #ENLIGHTConference2025! She merged over 1,400 nighttime visits to #BlueSpaces with satellite data measuring Artificial Light at Night ( #ALAN) to explore how the brightness of a location relates to perceived #safety and #wellbeing. 🌃

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🏙️ If you are interested in how ants can be used as an inspiration for city planning and urban development, check out our member Addi Wala’s STADTpsychologie Blog (German) on the topic: stadtpsychologie.at/ameisen-als-...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Meet our young #ant colony! 🐜 Named after the 10 other Work Packages (WPs) in the #RESONATE Project, WP11 does not provide us with data on nature-based therapies but can nonetheless teach us what is means to work together and care for our surrounding #environment. 💚

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Ester Hernández is a researcher at IICG-URJC in Spain. With a background in #Biology and #Conservation Ecology, her doctoral work explores the social perception of arid ecosystems. 🌵 We are happy to have Ester visit our lab and help her strengthen the bridge between #Ecology and #Psychology! 🌉

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Bio-psycho-social #Resilience: Can #Nature Strengthen Us? The short answer: Yes! ✅ The long answer? That’s where research comes in – as Valentina Hampejs explained in her recent talk at the Planetarium in Vienna as part of the VHS-Science Program. 🧪

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Anja Heske re-joined the team in March as a #PhD student. In her dissertation, she will explore how nature might benefit close personal relationships, working closely with the RESONATE project to investigate how natural environments might not only build individual, but also relational #resilience. 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Symposium on Nature-based Therapy in the DACH region. More information and Sign-up: www.eventbrite.es/e/nature-bas...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

@helenezillig.bsky.social is a student assistant, supporting the #ZeroPM project and helping classes on #EnvironmentalPsychology run smoothly for both students and lecturers. In her Master’s Thesis, she investigates how people’s #nighttime experience of #BlueSpaces is impacted by artificial light. 💡

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The goal of the pathfinding Horizon Europe #ZeroPM project is to protect our water from contamination with #persistent #mobile substances. An evidence-based multilevel framework including #prevention, #prioritization and #removal approaches is used to lead the European chemical strategy.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

♻️ Project Spotlight: ZeroPM 🏛️ Uni Vienna Team: Sabine Pahl, Mathew White & Ellise Suffill, with support from Louisa Richter and Hélène Zillig. ⌛ Duration: 2021–2026 🌐 For more information visit: zeropm.eu

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Ellise joined the Vienna EnvPsy Team in November 2021 as a post-doc and part of the #ZeroPM project. ♻️ Since then, she has been involved at the intersection between academia and policymaking and working towards reducing the consumption and pollution of persistent and mobile chemicals across the EU.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Cornelia Ehmayer’s university course on #urbanpsychology started into the next semester! 🏙️ Her company #STADTpsychologie conducts #participatory #urbandevelopment in Vienna and her integration of practical application, science, and teaching won her the University of Vienna’s Teaching Award 2024. 🎓

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

You can read my full experience report here: www.linkedin.com/posts/envpsy...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hi, I'm Neline, and over the past few months I've had the opportunity to complete an internship with the EnvPsy group at the University of Vienna. 💼 My main takeaway: Research does not have to be abstract. It can have real impact when it comes to understanding nature as a resource for health. 🧠 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We also wish everyone starting their academic journey (or at least their next academic year) lots of success and resilience! We also hope you don’t forget (admits all the studying) to go outside and spend some time in #nature. 😉🌳

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Our poster from the @univienna #WelcomeWeeks orientation event for new students interested in learning about the different teams and labs at the Faculty of #Psychology. 🎓 Thank you @helenezillig.bsky.social for putting this together! Sapere aude – Dare to know!

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This year’s Horizon Europe #RESONATE Annual Meeting took place in Padua 🇮🇹 and brought together leading experts in the field of Nature-based Therapy ( #NbT ) research from around the globe. 🌍 🌐 You can learn more about the #RESONATE project on our website: resonate-horizon.eu

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Project Title: “New Directions for Climate Change Communication through Entertainment Media: Towards an Integration of Psychological Theories and Mechanisms.”

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Isolde Gottwald has been awarded the DOC Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to pursue her doctoral project focusing on strategies for climate- & environmental communication in entertainment media. 📺 Welcome to the team! 🙌

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

#TogetherForTheSDGs Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals! Together with the UN Global Compact Network Austria we are raising the SDG Flag to show our sustained commitment to climate action, gender equality, biodiversity, and decent work! 🌍

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RESONATE Horizon Europe @resonatenbt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Listen to the latest episode of our Nature-based Therapy Podcast now! In this episode, our project coordinator @juegger.bsky.social shines her light on #nature-based #therapies, #social #prescribing & building #resilience across Europe. Visit resonate-horizon.eu/news/podcast/ to select a platform.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A quick reminder for anyone who hasn't checked out the RESONATE Podcast yet (resonate-horizon.eu/news/podcast/) 🎙️ Ep.1: Interview with PI Mathew White: open.spotify.com/episode/1wOh... 🎙️ EP.7: Interview with Project Manager Julia Egger: open.spotify.com/episode/4NCg...

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Podcast – Resonate

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Lead: Mathew White at the University of Vienna ⌛ Duration: 2023–2027 🌐 For more information visit: resonate-horizon.eu

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Resonate

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🌱Project Spotlight: RESONATE “Building individual and community RESilience thrOugh NATurE-based therapies” is a Horizon Europe project that brings together a consortium of world leaders in #nature_based_therapy (NbT) research, practice, policy, and innovation. 🌿

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🌐 For a list of all her publications, visit: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

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