{"id":6918,"date":"2017-04-25T06:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2017-04-25T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:06:34","slug":"bbc-nature-programmes-on-tv-are-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/04\/25\/bbc-nature-programmes-on-tv-are-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC nature programmes on TV are good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says a less than critical article on the Mother Nature Network [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/health\/fitness-well-being\/blogs\/watching-nature-documentaries-boosts-happiness-says-study\">MNN<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Well, to be picky, it actually says that \"Watching nature documentaries boosts happiness. \u00a0Anxiety and fear give way to joy and awe when we tune into scenes of the natural world\", but given that the study was commissioned by the BBC, it amounts to much the same thing. \u00a0The article starts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Need a mood boost, but don't have time\u00a0to hit the great outdoors? Try the next best thing and turn on a nature documentary. \u00a0A recent study has found that tuning into nature documentaries can have an immediate impact on increasing happiness and reducing overall stress. The study was commissioned by the BBC to mark the launch of its new critically-acclaimed nature series \"Planet Earth II.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you are. \u00a0Could it be that it's the happier people who tend to watch nature programmes? \u00a0MNN goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Using special facial recognition software fed by webcams, the research team analyzed the expressions in real-time of 7,500 participants from the U.S., UK, South Africa and Australia. \u00a0Before and after watching clips from the series, the volunteers were also asked to complete short surveys on their emotional well-being. \u00a0According to the study results, those engaged in watching nature programming had significant increases in feelings of awe, amazement, wonder; curiosity, interest and wanting to explore. \u00a0Conversely, feelings of nervousness, anxiety, fear, and low energy were significantly lowered.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the report all this is based on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asset-manager.bbcchannels.com\/workspace\/uploads\/bbcw-real-happiness-white-paper-final-v2-58ac1df7.pdf\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I wonder if people get the same reaction from watching those meerkat TV adverts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says a less than critical article on the Mother Nature Network [MNN]. Well, to be picky, it actually says that \"Watching nature documentaries boosts happiness. \u00a0Anxiety and fear give way to joy and awe when we tune into scenes...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}