Evidence for rapid affective evaluation of environmental scenes

Korpela, K.M., T. Klemettila & J.K. Hietanen, 2002, Evidence for rapid affective evaluation of environmental scenes, in: Environment and Behavior, 34, 5

  • Author : Korpela, K.M., T. Klemettila & J.K. Hietanen
  • Year : 2002
  • Journal/Series : Environment and Behavior
  • Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 5
  • Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 34
  • Pages : 634-650
  • Contents in English : OUTLINE: The authors employed an affective priming paradigm to provide direct evidence for the rapid evaluation of natural and urban environments suggested in evolutionary models of environmental perception. Pictures classified as urban and natural environments differing in restorative and affective quality were presented as prime stimuli. Urban pictures were associated with low restorativeness, and negative affective quality and natural pictures with high restorativeness and positive affective quality.
  • Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: preferences, restioration, environment, urban, nature.