李　靜

If youre feeling stressed, try looking out of the window, with a US study finding scenes of nature can alleviate minor stress levels.

The study involved measuring peoples heart recovery rate from minor stress when they were exposed to a natural scene through a window and when exposed to the same scene shown on a high-definition plasma screen, or a blank wall.

“The heart rate of people who looked at the scene through the window dropped more quickly than the others. In fact, the high-definition plasma screen had no more effect than the blank wall,” the researchers said in a statement.

They also found that when people spent more time looking at the natural scene their heart rates tended to decrease more. That was not the case with the plasma screen.

The study, involving 90 college students, is published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

“Technology is good and it can help our lives, but lets not be fooled into thinking we can live without nature,” Peter Kahn, who led the research team, said in a statement.

He said people were losing direct experiences with nature and instead experiencing nature represented technologically through television and other media with children growing up watching Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.

“But as a species we need interaction with actual nature for our physical and psychological well-being,”he said.

累了多看看窗外的風(fēng)景。因?yàn)槊绹?guó)一項(xiàng)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，看看自然風(fēng)景可以緩解輕度壓力。

研究人員測(cè)量了研究對(duì)象在輕度壓力下看到窗外的一處自然風(fēng)景，以及在高清等離子顯示屏或白墻上看到同一風(fēng)景時(shí)的心跳恢復(fù)率。

研究人員在一份聲明中稱：“看窗外自然風(fēng)景的人心率下降的速度比其他人都要快。事實(shí)表明，高清等離子顯示屏與白墻的效果差不多。”

此外，研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們看自然風(fēng)景的時(shí)間越久，心率下降得就越多；而通過(guò)等離子顯示屏看風(fēng)景的人卻并非如此。

該項(xiàng)涉及90名大學(xué)生的研究在《環(huán)境心理學(xué)期刊》上發(fā)表。

研究小組組長(zhǎng)彼得·卡恩在聲明中說(shuō)：“科技有很多好處，能給我們的生活提供很多幫助，但我們不能因此就認(rèn)為我們可以沒(méi)有大自然了。”

他說(shuō)，如今人們親近大自然的機(jī)會(huì)越來(lái)越少，而是體驗(yàn)通過(guò)電視和其它媒介等技術(shù)手段呈現(xiàn)的大自然，現(xiàn)在的孩子也都是看著“探索頻道”和“動(dòng)物星球”之類的節(jié)目長(zhǎng)大的。

他說(shuō)：“但作為自然界的一大物種，我們需要接觸真實(shí)的大自然，以保證我們的身心健康。”