Get Up And Do Something: Hiking in nature increases creativity

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Hiking in nature increases creativity Dec 14th 2012, 11:10 If your creative juices have temporarily dried up or you're having something akin to writer's block at work, get thee to the Appalachian Trail—or another backwoods spot. There's a whole field of research (called ecopsychology), which shows that being out in nature is good for your psyche, and Outward Bound has made a business out of restoring people through long hikes in the woods. Now, a new study has found that being in nature—without your smartphone, that is—also increases your creativity. Psychologists from the University of Utah and University of Kansas conducted creativity tests on 56 men and women who had participated in four- to six-day wilderness hiking trips organized by the Outward Bound expedition school in Alaska, Colorado, Maine and Washington state. Of course, no electronic devices were allowed on the trips.

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