Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Psychology in 2001"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured place attachment within three spatial ranges (house, neighbourhood, and city) and two dimensions (physical and social), in order to establish some comparison between them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a three-factor model for environmental attitudes and found strong evidence for the distinction between egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns.

TL;DR: A 12-item SOP scale, consistent with a multidimensional theoretical prescription, was developed and subsequently tested in the field with a sample of lakeshore property owners in northern Wisconsin (n=282) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest an analytical framework for the understanding of what makes places meaningful, and suggest that the results of empirical studies need not be limited to special places, but may also contribute to more general empirical and theoretical discussions regarding the roles and meanings of place in contemporary society.

TL;DR: It is found from the present review that the continuous exposure of people to road traffic noise leads to suffering from various kinds of discomfort, thus reducing appreciably the number of their well-being elements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of rating scale measures of restorative components of environments were developed with the aim of developing a rating scale measure of relaxations of environments, including extent, fascination, and compatibility.

TL;DR: Recommendations for changes were developed to promote better use of the garden and can be used to guide the future planning, design, building, and subsequent evaluation of garden environments in children's hospitals and pediatric settings.

TL;DR: This article found that the presence of information about the impact of ecological damage on the environment, especially a more “wild” environment, elicited more ecocentric reasoning, while social commitment and non-environmental moral reasoning were associated with more nonenvironmental reasoning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the same set of forest landscape scenes was represented by visualizations rendered at four different levels of realism, i.e., abstract wireframe models, high resolution, photorealistic video images, and low realism.

TL;DR: This article found that people who visit, work or live in forests described a transcendent moment in a forest, providing written responses to open ended questions regarding the cause, thoughts, and behaviour associated with the event.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the potential predictors of purchasing eco-labeled products, including importance attached to purchase criteria, beliefs about the characteristics of ecolabeled alternatives of some food products, and prescriptive norm strength to purchase such products.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of colour of light (warm, cool, and artificial "daylight" white lighting) on subjects' self-reported mood, cognitive performance and room light estimation was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of environmental variables over affect to cognitive performance were investigated, such as ventilation noise, air temperature, and illuminance, on the long-term recall of a text, and free recall of emotionally toned words.

TL;DR: In this article, the attitudes of residents, landowners, and managers on both sides of the debate were investigated and the evidence was strong that there are powerful emotional and cultural drivers that divide nature conservationists and local landusers and residents into two camps, maintained by stereotyping and group bonding.

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale way-finding task involving compass and map orienteering was conducted and participants were required to find at least 8 of 10 points in a 4-hour time period while covering about 6 km of woodland terrain.

TL;DR: The study setting (private or open-plan), environmental color (blue, red, or white), and study material (reading or math comprehension) were manipulated in a simulated study environment to determine their effects on adult students' mood, satisfaction, motivation, and performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mental arithmetic task was applied on 123 medical students (43 males and 80 females) under quiet (42 dB/A/Leq) and noisy laboratory conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance, significance and value of wood and trees in people's personal worlds and within their local community and cultural environments was investigated. But the focus was on the importance of wooded sites, rather than the symbolic space they occupy in people personal worlds.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the best-predicting architects related their evaluations to buildings' conceptual properties in a manner similar to that of the laypersons, which suggests that architects are unable to exchange their own criteria for conceptual properties for those of lay persons when they predict public evaluations, leading to self-anchored, inaccurate predictions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored three possible explanations to account for variability in preference judgements for particular landscape scenes and found that a strong commonly shared mental representation exists for this landscape type, resulting in quick and holistic judgements of preference and high consensus for scenes judged as good examples of the landscape type.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that optimism bias regarding environmental degradation may inhibit pro-environmental behaviour, which is consistent with the egocentrism account of optimism bias; egocentric focus on personal precautions may not contribute to optimism bias if others are also perceived to benefit from personal precautions.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the relationship between environmental conditions and employee health in Chinese white and blue-collar samples, and examined the role of organizational commitment as a stress moderator, finding that environmental conditions (including ventilation, workable space, illumination, temperature, noise, air pollution, and freedom to move around at work) are positively related to job satisfaction, and physical and mental well-being.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the importance of visual stimuli in path choice in the exploratory behavior of first-time visitors to an environment and specifically with the importance in visual stimuli for path choice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the multidimensional scaling procedure, smallest space analysis (SSA-I) to examine the trends across the distances between each disposal site and every other and their distances from the offender's homes.

TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of different visual perspectives on the acquisition of spatial knowledge and on way-finding strategies in a virtual environment and found that participants prefer right angles at intersections to go back to the former route and use oblique angled paths more frequently to return to the learned route.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that older children who had recently experienced the requirements of leading the way to and from a distant site increasingly noted landmarks in the skyline and landmarks near intersections.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of the spatial behaviour of arsonists based on motivational aspects of the offence was proposed. And the relationship between the distances travelled to set fires and both crime-scene features and offender background characteristics were tested using Smallest Space Analysis (SSA).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how a person interprets landscapes, an examination carried out using phenomenological methodology, and found that encountering each landscape evoked each participant's memories and background, and filtered through these influences, imagination/association, impression, aesthetic judgements, and meaning and attractiveness of nature played their roles in each landscape.