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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40854-6
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- Research Councils UK [EP/K039830/1]
- Alan Turing Institute under the EPSRC [EP/N510129/1, TU/B/000006, TU/B/000008, TU/D/000019]
- Warwick Business School Doctoral Scholarship
- Economic and Social Research Council UK [PTA-031-2006-00280]
- EPSRC [EP/K000128/1]
- Alan Turing Institute [TU/D/000019] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K000128/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Does spending time in beautiful settings boost people's happiness? The answer to this question has long remained elusive due to a paucity of large-scale data on environmental aesthetics and individual happiness. Here, we draw on two novel datasets: first, individual happiness data from the smartphone app, Mappiness, and second, crowdsourced ratings of the scenicness of photographs taken across England from the online game Scenic-Or-Not. We find that individuals are happier in more scenic locations, even when we account for a range of factors such as the activity the individual was engaged in at the time, weather conditions and the income of local inhabitants. Crucially, this relationship holds not only in natural environments, but in built-up areas too, even after controlling for the presence of green space. Our results provide evidence that the aesthetics of the environments that policymakers choose to build or demolish may have consequences for our everyday wellbeing.
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