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  • Evans, “Learning and the Physical Environment.”
  • Ibid.
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  • Maxwell and Killeen, “Museum Visits.”
  • Evans, “Learning and the Physical Environment.”
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  • Maxwell and Killeen, “Museum Visits.”
  • Robert Sommer and H. Olsen, “The Soft Classroom,” Environment and Behavior 12 (1980): 3–16.
  • Kaplan and Kaplan, Experience of Nature.
  • Evans, “Learning and the Physical Environment.”
  • Maxwell, “Report to the Museum Education Department.”
  • I. Janis, “Decision Making under Stress,” in Handbook of Stress, ed. Leo Goldberger and Shlomo Breznitz (New York: Free Press, 1982), pp. 69–87.

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