Are Cities Bad for You?
by findingDulcinea Staff
A study published last month in the journal Psychological Science found that college students given psychological tests after taking a short walk in an urban environment experienced significant cognitive defects, including low scores on attention, working memory and overall mood.
Boston Globe contributor Jonah Lehrer says it is just one example of the growing body of research on city life’s harmful effects, and that they have important implications now that most of the world’s inhabitants reside in urban areas.
“The mind is a limited machine,” said Marc Berman, a psychologist at the University of Michigan who was a lead author in the study, to The Boston Globe. “And we’re beginning to understand the different ways that a city can exceed those limitations.”
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