40-second green roof views sustain attention: The role of micro-breaks in attention restoration

Kate E Lee; Kathryn JH Williams; Leisa D Sargent; Nicholas SG Williams; Katherine A Johnson

Journal article

40-second green roof views sustain attention: The role of micro-breaks in attention restoration

Kate E Lee, Kathryn JH Williams, Leisa D Sargent, Nicholas SG Williams, Katherine A Johnson

Journal of Environmental Psychology | ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.04.003

University of Melbourne Researchers

Katherine Johnson Author Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Kathryn Williams Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Kate Lee Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Nicholas Williams Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council by City of Melbourne

Funding Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Tim Fletcher, Nick Haslam, Scott Seibert and the anonymous reviewers for their comments on drafts and thank Simon Kelly and the Green Infrastructure Research Group. This work was partly supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant LP0990704 supported by the City of Melbourne, Melbourne Water, The Committee for Melbourne and the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment. KL was supported by a scholarship funded through the Cybec Foundation.