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Kalevi Korpela

Kalevi Korpela

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Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
17395
World Ranking
5342
National Ranking
42

Overview

Kalevi Korpela is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland and specializes in research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work explores a variety of subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing, Sociology and Political Science, Conservation, and Social Psychology.

The central themes of Korpela's research focus on Urban Green Space and Health, Noise Effects and Management, Art Therapy and Mental Health, Place Attachment and Urban Studies, Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Educational Environments and Student Outcomes.

Korpela has published frequently in several academic journals, with the most recurrent publication venue being the Journal of Environmental Psychology. Others include Psykologia, Frontiers in Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior, and Scientific Reports.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Korpela include:

  • Measures and modalities in restorative virtual natural environments: An integrative narrative review, 2021, Computers in Human Behavior
  • Results from an 18 country cross-sectional study examining experiences of nature for people with common mental health disorders, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Urban green space and mental health among people living alone: The mediating roles of relational and collective restoration in an 18-country sample, 2023, Environmental Research
  • Exploring psychological restoration in favorite indoor and outdoor urban places using a top-down perspective, 2021, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Still not that bad for the grey city: A field study on the restorative effects of built open urban places, 2021, Cities

Frequent collaborators in Korpela's work include Kirsi Salonen, Katriina Hyvönen, Tytti Pasanen, Eleanor Ratcliffe, and Ann Ojala, highlighting a pattern of interdisciplinary cooperation.

Best Publications

  • Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review

    Konstantinos Tzoulas;Kalevi Korpela;Stephen Venn;Vesa Johannes Yli-Pelkonen

  • The influence of urban green environments on stress relief measures: A field experiment

    Liisa Tyrväinen;Ann Ojala;Kalevi Korpela;Timo Lanki

  • A measure of restorative quality in environments

    Terry Hartig;Kalevi Korpela;Gary W. Evans;Tommy Gärling

  • RESTORATIVE QUALITIES OF FAVORITE PLACES

    Kalevi Korpela;Terry Hartig

  • Place-identity as a product of environmental self-regulation

    Kalevi Mikael Korpela

  • Restorative experience and self-regulation in favorite places

    Kalevi M. Korpela;Terry Hartig;Florian G. Kaiser;Urs Fuhrer

  • Determinants of restorative experiences in everyday favorite places.

    Kalevi M. Korpela;Matti Ylén;Liisa Tyrväinen;Harri Silvennoinen

  • Towards an integrated understanding of green space in the European built environment

    P. James;K. Tzoulas;M. D. Adams;A. Barber

  • Restorative experience, self-regulation, and children's place preferences

    Kalevi Korpela;Marketta Kyttä;Terry Hartig

  • Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study

    Robert Gifford;Leila Scannell;Christine Kormos;Lidia Smolova

  • Favorite green, waterside and urban environments, restorative experiences and perceived health in Finland

    Kalevi M Korpela;Matti Ylén;Liisa Tyrväinen;Harri Silvennoinen

  • Adolescents' favourite places and environmental self-regulation

    Kalevi M. Korpela

  • Analyzing the mediators between nature-based outdoor recreation and emotional well-being

    Kalevi Korpela;Katja Borodulin;Marjo Neuvonen;Olavi Paronen

  • Emotional, restorative and vitalizing effects of forest and urban environments at four sites in Japan.

    Norimasa Takayama;Kalevi Korpela;Juyoung Lee;Takeshi Morikawa

  • Perceived health is associated with visiting natural favourite places in the vicinity

    Kalevi M. Korpela;Matti Ylén

  • The Relationship between Perceived Health and Physical Activity Indoors, Outdoors in Built Environments, and Outdoors in Nature

    Tytti P. Pasanen;Liisa Tyrväinen;Kalevi M. Korpela

  • Relationships between exposure to urban green spaces, physical activity and self-rated health

    Miisa Pietilä;Marjo Neuvonen;Katja Borodulin;Kalevi Korpela

  • Children's environment.

    Kalevi Korpela

  • Restorative effects of urban green environments and the role of urban-nature orientedness and noise sensitivity: A field experiment

    Ann Ojala;Kalevi Korpela;Liisa Tyrväinen;Pekka Tiittanen

  • Enhancing daily well-being at work through lunchtime park walks and relaxation exercises: Recovery experiences as mediators.

    Marjaana Sianoja;Christine J. Syrek;Jessica de Bloom;Kalevi Korpela

  • Stability of self-reported favourite places and place attachment over a 10-month period

    Kalevi M. Korpela;Matti Ylén;Liisa Tyrväinen;Harri Silvennoinen

  • Evidence for Rapid Affective Evaluation of Environmental Scenes

    Kalevi M. Korpela;Terhi Klemettilä;Jari K. Hietanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulla Kinnunen
Ulla Kinnunen Tampere University
Jessica de Bloom
Jessica de Bloom Tampere University
Terry Hartig
Terry Hartig Uppsala University
Taru Feldt
Taru Feldt University of Jyväskylä
Sabine A. E. Geurts
Sabine A. E. Geurts Radboud University
Saija Mauno
Saija Mauno Tampere University
Michael J. Mason
Michael J. Mason University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jari K. Hietanen
Jari K. Hietanen Tampere University
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans Cornell University
Florian G. Kaiser
Florian G. Kaiser Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

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