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Question 11

The researchers in an urban well-being study are interested in publishing their work in the Journal of Ecopsychology and Urban Well-being (JEUW).

The Journal of Ecopsychology and Urban Well-being publishes empirical research exploring how natural and designed urban environments impact human cognitive restoration and emotional health.

Author Guidelines for the Journal of Ecopsychology and Urban Well-being (JEUW):

  • We publish empirical research exploring how natural and designed urban environments impact human cognitive restoration and emotional health.
  • We prioritize experimental designs, particularly randomized controlled trials (RCTs), with high ecological validity.
  • We require full pre-registration of all primary outcome measures and open-access data sharing.
  • Our peer-review process is single-blind (reviewers are anonymous, but author identities are known to reviewers).
  • We prioritize studies targeting urban working adults or tertiary-level (university) students.

The researchers conducted an 8-week randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 180 university students, comparing the cognitive restoration effects of daily 20-minute walks in an urban pocket park versus an indoor virtual reality nature simulation. They tracked attention restoration using standardized cognitive tests and measured heart rate variability. Their research design, hypotheses, and analysis plan were pre-registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF), and they agreed to make their raw anonymised dataset publicly available.

Explain what the peer review process would involve for the researchers in this urban well-being study, including a consideration of the likelihood of their findings being published in the Journal of Ecopsychology and Urban Well-being.

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