SciShow Psych: Houseplants Can (Probably) Make You Happier

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Houseplants are great for decoration and cute Instagram pictures - plus they make for pretty chill roommates. As if that wasn’t enough, there is actually some evidence that houseplants can also be good for your mental health. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: AAdam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4610617/ https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/diseases/depression-anxiety.html https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/abstract/journals/horttech/5/2/article-p137.xml https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419447/ https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/abstract/journals/hortsci/51/10/article-p1308.xml https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/near-infrared-spectroscopy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25074565 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25453523 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4377915/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1420326X13481372 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013916513499584 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15535806 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/acm.2009.0075 https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/18/4/article-p563.xml https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/44/1/article-p102.xml https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22489806 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494409000413 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494410001027 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001391659803000301 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10937404.2016.1196155 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0272494495900012 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15501093


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