Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

A psychophysical measurement on subjective well-being and air pollution

  • Yuan Li,
  • Dabo Guan,
  • Yanni Yu,
  • Stephen Westland,
  • Daoping Wang,
  • Jing Meng,
  • Xuejun Wang,
  • Kebin He,
  • Shu Tao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13459-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Air pollution can affect people’s emotional status and well-being. Here, the authors simulate fixed-scene images to show that under the atmospheric conditions in Beijing, negative emotions occur when air quality index of PM2.5 increases to approximately 150.