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[1] R. Baños, C. Botella, M. Alcañiz Raya, V. Liaño, B. Guerrero, B. Rey, 2005. Immersion and Emotion: Their Impact on the Sense of Presence. Cyberpsychology & behavior : the impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society 7, 734–41. [Cross Ref]

[2] R.M. Baños, V. Liaño, C. Botella, M. Alcañiz, B. Guerrero, B. Rey, 2006. Changing Induced Moods Via Virtual Reality, in: W.A. IJsselsteijn, Y.A.W. de Kort, C. Midden, B. Eggen, E. van den Hoven (Eds.), Persuasive Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 7–15. [Cross Ref]

[3] O. Baus, S. Bouchard, 2014. Moving from Virtual Reality Exposure-Based Therapy to Augmented Reality Exposure-Based Therapy: A Review. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8. [Cross Ref]

[4] S. Bermúdez i Badia, L. Quintero, M. Cameirão, A. Chirico, S. Triberti, P. Cipresso, A. Gaggioli, 2018. Toward Emotionally Adaptive Virtual Reality for Mental Health Applications. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics PP, 1–1. [Cross Ref]

[5] T. Bosse, C. Gerritsen, J. de Man, J. Treur, 2014. Towards virtual training of emotion regulation. Brain Inform 1, 27–37. [Cross Ref]

[6] C. Botella, J. Bretón-López, S. Quero, R. Baños, A. García-Palacios, 2010. Treating Cockroach Phobia With Augmented Reality. Behavior Therapy 41, 401–413. [Cross Ref]

[7] P.R. Boyce, N.H. Eklund, B.J. Hamilton, L.D. Bruno, 2000. Perceptions of safety at night in different lighting conditions. International Journal of Lighting Research and Technology 32, 79–91. [Cross Ref]

[8] M.M. Bradley, P.J. Lang, 1994. Measuring emotion: The self-assessment manikin and the semantic differential. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 25, 49–59. [Cross Ref]

[9] G.N. Bratman, C.B. Anderson, M.G. Berman, B. Cochran, S. de Vries, J. Flanders, C. Folke, H. Frumkin, J.J. Gross, T. Hartig, P.H. Kahn, M. Kuo, J.J. Lawler, P.S. Levin, T. Lindahl, A. Meyer-Lindenberg, R. Mitchell, Z. Ouyang, J. Roe, L. Scarlett, J.R. Smith, M. van den Bosch, B.W. Wheeler, M.P. White, H. Zheng, G.C. Daily, 2019. Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective. Science Advances 5. [Cross Ref]

[10] G.N. Bratman, J.P. Hamilton, G.C. Daily, 2012. The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health: Nature experience, cognitive function, and mental health. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1249, 118–136. [Cross Ref]

[11] M.H.E.M. Browning, K.J. Mimnaugh, C.J. van Riper, H.K. Laurent, S.M. LaValle, 2020. Can Simulated Nature Support Mental Health? Comparing Short, Single-Doses of 360-Degree Nature Videos in Virtual Reality With the Outdoors. Front. Psychol. 10. [Cross Ref]

[12] R. Buckley, D. Westaway OAM, 2021. Women report that nature tourism provides recovery from psychological trauma. Tourism Recreation Research 1–5.

[13] N. Dunn, T. Edensor, 2020. Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices. Routledge.

[14] A. Felnhofer, O.D. Kothgassner, M. Schmidt, A.-K. Heinzle, L. Beutl, H. Hlavacs, I. Kryspin-Exner, 2015. Is virtual reality emotionally arousing? Investigating five emotion inducing virtual park scenarios. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 82, 48–56. [Cross Ref]

[15] M. Ferrer-García, J. Gutiérrez-Maldonado, 2011. The use of virtual reality in the study, assessment, and treatment of body image in eating disorders and nonclinical samples: A review of the literature. Body image 9, 1–11. [Cross Ref]

[16] C.D. Gould van Praag, S.N. Garfinkel, O. Sparasci, A. Mees, A.O. Philippides, M. Ware, C. Ottaviani, H.D. Critchley, 2017. Mind-wandering and alterations to default mode network connectivity when listening to naturalistic versus artificial sounds. Scientific Reports 7, 45273. [Cross Ref]

[17] J.J. Gross, R.W. Levenson, 1995. Emotion elicitation using films. Cognition and Emotion 9, 87–108. [Cross Ref]

[18] R. Herrero, A. García-Palacios, D. Castilla, G. Molinari, C. Botella, 2014. Virtual Reality for the Induction of Positive Emotions in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: A Pilot Study over Acceptability, Satisfaction, and the Effect of Virtual Reality on Mood. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 17, 379–384. [Cross Ref]

[19] M.C. Juan, R. Baños, C. Botella, D. Pérez, M. Alcaníiz, C. Monserrat, 2006. An Augmented Reality System for the Treatment of Acrophobia: The Sense of Presence Using Immersive Photography. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 15, 393–402. [Cross Ref]

[20] P. Mason, 2000. Zoo tourism: The need for more research. Journal of sustainable tourism 8, 333–339.

[21] R. McLay, V. Ram, J. Murphy, J. Spira, D.P. Wood, M.D. Wiederhold, B.K. Wiederhold, S. Johnston, D. Reeves, 2014. Effect of Virtual Reality PTSD Treatment on Mood and Neurocognitive Outcomes. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 17, 439–446. [Cross Ref]

[22] R. Mehra, V.S. Sharma, V. Kaulgud, S. Podder, 2019. Fostering positive affects in software development environments using extended reality, in: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering, SEmotion ’19. IEEE Press, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 42–45. [Cross Ref]

[23] H. Parr, 2007. Mental health, nature work, and social inclusion. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25, 537–561.

[24] P. Philippot, 1993. Inducing and assessing differentiated emotion-feeling states in the laboratory. Cognition and Emotion 7, 171–193. [Cross Ref]

[25] T.G. Plante, A. Aldridge, R. Bogden, C. Hanelin, 2003. Might virtual reality promote the mood benefits of exercise? Computers in Human Behavior 19, 495–509. [Cross Ref]

[26] G. Riva, F. Mantovani, C.S. Capideville, A. Preziosa, F. Morganti, D. Villani, A. Gaggioli, C. Botella, M. Alcañiz, 2007. Affective Interactions Using Virtual Reality: The Link between Presence and Emotions. CyberPsychology & Behavior 10, 45–56. [Cross Ref]

[27] B. Serrano, R.M. Baños, C. Botella, 2016. Virtual reality and stimulation of touch and smell for inducing relaxation: A randomized controlled trial. Computers in Human Behavior 55, 1–8. [Cross Ref]

[28] R.E. Thayer, 1986. Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List: Current Overview and Structural Analysis. Psychol Rep 58, 607–614. [Cross Ref]

[29] J. Yin, J. Yuan, N. Arfaei, P.J. Catalano, J.G. Allen, J.D. Spengler, 2020. Effects of biophilic indoor environment on stress and anxiety recovery: A between-subjects experiment in virtual reality. Environment International 136, 105427. [Cross Ref]

[30] C.-P. Yu, H.-Y. Lee, X.-Y. Luo, 2018. The effect of virtual reality forest and urban environments on physiological and psychological responses. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 35, 106–114. [Cross Ref]

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