Lohr, V.I. & C.H. Pearson-Mims, 2006, Responses to scenes with spreading, rounded, and conical tree forms, in: Environment and Behavior, 38, 1
- Author : Lohr, V.I. & C.H. Pearson-Mims
- Year : 2006
- Title English : Responses to scenes with spreading, rounded, and conical tree forms
- Journal/Series : Environment and Behavior
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 1
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 38
- Pages : 667-688
- Contents in English : In this study, people responded very positively to the presence of trees in urban settings. Their emotional responses were related to their preferences, with people reporting feeling happier, friendlier, more attentive, less angry, less sad, and less fearful when looking at the preferred urban scenes with trees than when looking at the same urban scenes with inanimate objects instead of trees. Is also showed that people respond more positively (feeling happier and having lower diastolic blood pressure, for example) to trees with a spreading shape, similar that of savanna trees, than to trees with rounded or conical forms. People also appeared to respond more positively to trees with denser canopies.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: trees, environmental psychology, preference, savanna hypothesis.