Environmental perception: The effects of media, evaluative context, and observer sample

Influence of academic education on the perception of wood in watercourses

“…The Polish part of the survey also comprised managers involved in the management and protection of watercourses. Perception of the environment by persons with professional experience in environmental management may differ from that of non-experts (Mitchell, 1971;Zube, 1973;Buhyoff et al, 1978;Feimer, 1984) and the discrepancy can have a clear reflection in distinct recommendations formulated with respect to environmental problems (Vining, 1992). Dearden (1980) suggested that if managers and the general public differ in their perception of the environment, the difference derives from environmental awareness of the groups.…”

How Distance Mitigates Perceived Threat at 30–90 M

“…169-172) suggest that a parsimonious response format of a single scale is adequate for expressing basic affective responses such as threat. On the issue of presentation venue, Feimer (1984) reported relevant data in an experiment in environmental perception with 1,148 participants, 44 responses, evaluative contexts, four media, professional and lay demographic groups, and two presentation venues (a school room and a church room). The results indicated that the effects of these procedural factors were very small.…”

Efficient visualization of urban spaces

“…The experiments in this article used simple experimental protocols because extensive previous research indicated that more elaborate protocols were not necessary for factors such as scaling model [26,38], representation of affective responses [26,39], presentation venue [40], simulation medium [40], or demographic factors. For example, a review of demographic differences in environmental perception, covering over 19000 participants from 21 countries, 3821 scenes, and 12 demographic factors, indicated a very high consensus (r > .82) across all demographic groups except for children less than 12 years old vs. adults, political groups such as special interest groups vs. non-special interest groups, and designers vs. non-designers for avant garde projects [41].…”