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Why does nature calm anxiety?

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The Effects of Nature Videos on Prison Inmates

Prisoners of one wing would have no nature as a control in the experiment. The prisoners in the other wing would have videos of nature projected on their wall. What we found was that exposure to the videos had a positive impact on the inmates emotional state. And many of them talked about how those scenes helped them go to sleep at night.

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