Marc Berman

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637 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 360 | Marc Berman on the Science of Touching Grass · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And again, this was sort of a quasi-experiment because patients didn't get to pick what room they were in.

They were just kind of randomly assigned to whatever room was available.

But it had this really significant impact on physical recovery, which is...

kind of wild.

And I don't think this had to do with air quality.

I don't think the patients that had the room with the nature were exercising more or something about it.

There was something about the aesthetic of nature that maybe had these healing qualities.

And maybe this was also somewhat mood related, maybe having the nature elevated mood, which had healing properties.

You know, Sean, this is almost, you could do another podcast about this.

So I think there's tons of implications here, tons of things that we can do, but I would say psychology as a science has not had as large of an impact on society as you would want.

Economics has.

Economics, you know, as a social science has had a really, really profound impact on society, but psychology really hasn't gotten there yet.

And I think there's a number of reasons why for that.

One is that I think to really make hay in society, you have to talk in terms that people can really grab onto, which I think are economics.

It's difficult for me to say now, what does a 20% improvement in backwards digi-span mean economically?

I don't know.

I mean, I think people will be more productive at work, but I don't know how much more productive at work they'll be.

They know that kids are going to be more productive at school and have less behavioral issues if there's more green space around the school.

But is it worth it?

Because these things are not inexpensive.

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