Environmental Psychology Restorative Effects On Cooperative Behavior

Human society is full of various cooperative behaviors,which are involved in study,work and daily life.Cooperative behavior can make students master knowledge efficiently.It allows doctors to do their jobs more smoothly;Can increase team performance.Cooperative behavior plays an important role in daily life.Previous studies have found higher levels of cooperation when exposed to the natural environment compared to the built environment.Human beings are in a variety of environments every day,and the surroundings of a variety of environments are subtly affecting human beings.Environmental psychologists have found that some environments are restorative.The healing ability of the environment can have a positive impact on the stress,bad emotions and various physical and mental conditions in People’s Daily life.However,whether the effect of environment on cooperative behavior is related to the concept of environmental recovery remains to be verified.Therefore,guided by previous theories and studies on cooperative behavior and healing environment,this study explores the influence of environmental healing on cooperative behavior,and further explores how cooperative behavior is affected by environmental healing in different situations.In the pre-experiment,different environmental images were rated by the healing environment scale.The healing levels of different environmental types were analyzed by the healing environment scale,and the experimental materials needed for the following research were screened out.In study 1,the effect of environmental healing on cooperative behavior was investigated.A single-factor experimental design was adopted.The independent variable was environmental setting(traditional natural environment/urban green space/urban architecture),and the dependent variable was the level of cooperation of subjects.In the experiment,the participants’ cooperation level was quantified through the public goods dilemma task.In the experiment,the participants were asked to score the observed environment with the healing environment scale,and their emotions were assessed with the PANAS Positive and negative emotion Scale.The positive effects of environmental healing on cooperative behavior were verified by analyzing the score of the recovery environment Scale and the allocation number of public goods dilemma task,and the interference effects of emotion and gender were excluded.Study 2 explored the effect of environmental healing on cooperative behavior in different situations.A 3×2 design was adopted.The independent variables were environmental setting(traditional natural environment/urban green space/urban architecture)and situation type(loss/gain),and the dependent variable was the level of cooperation of participants.The control of situation types is divided into loss situation and gain situation through the guiding language of public goods dilemma.The other control methods are the same as study 1.It verifies the positive influence of environmental healing on cooperative behavior in different situations and further analyzes cooperative behavior in different situations.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:(1)Different environmental types have different healing ability.Among them,the rehabilitation level of traditional natural environment,urban green space and urban architecture decreased successively.(2)Cooperative behavior will be affected by the current environment.A high level of recuperative environment can promote cooperative behavior.(3)Cooperative situation will influence the level of cooperation.Compared with the loss situation,the cooperation level of individuals in the gain situation was higher.(4)In both loss and gain situations,a high level of recovery environment can positively affect cooperative behavior.This study provides a new idea on how to promote cooperative behavior among individuals.By combining the concept of healing environment in psychology with cooperative behavior,the positive influence of healing environment on cooperative behavior is verified and a new direction is provided for human beings to apply healing environment.It provides new enlightenment for urban construction and daily life.In urban construction,it will be beneficial to the development of all aspects to increase the construction of rehabilitation environment appropriately to promote the cooperative behavior between people.In daily life,frequent exposure to healing environment will contribute to the harmonious development of interpersonal communication.