Personality and geography: Introverts prefer mountains

Oishi, Shigehiro; Talhelm, Thomas; Lee, Minha

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2015.07.001

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“…These findings add more fine-grained knowledge about where and when hedonic and eudaimonic feelings occur during wilderness adventure. As there are similarities and differences between one group during forest-stormy and another group during plateau-cold, there is much more to understand than preference into different landscapes (Oishi et al, 2015). Also, as all students were presented with a new landscape, the bonding effect based on former experiences (Knez and Eliasson, 2017) could not explain the connection between place and wellbeing.…”

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“…For example, coastal landscape provides therapeutic values in experiencing emotional, embodied and often shared connections with the coast (Bell et al, 2015). There might be differences in personality traits and preference of places, whereas introverts prefer mountains more than extroverts, and introverts are happier in wooded landscapes than in open areas (Oishi et al, 2015). Emotional experiences of landscapes were moreover enhancing the relationship between place-identity and well-being in Swedish mountains (Knez and Eliasson, 2017).…”

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Feeling at Home in the Wilderness: Environmental Conditions, Well-Being and Aesthetic Experience

2020

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Environmental conditions affect one's aesthetic experience in natural environments. Understanding that effect requires accounting for the conditions affecting one's attention and experience. Rather than attempt to reduce and control environmental factors, we compare two similar groups during naturally occurring, intense and overwhelming conditions and examine the relationship between common characteristics as well as environment and group differences. Participants undertook a 5-day, winter, wilderness adventure training course designed to challenge their considerable wilderness and leadership skills under two different extreme weather conditions but within the same wilderness area (n = 47 full participation). In addition to pre-and post-adventure questionnaires, participants responded daily during the wilderness experience to briefly describe a self-selected, strong experience of nature; characterize its associated feeling states; and answer questions probing eight aesthetic aspects of the experience. Participant strong experience of nature related to hedonic and eudaimonic feelings in different ways depending upon environmental conditions. In particular, strong correlations occurred between agreement ratings with "I felt at home in nature" daily experience reports and satisfaction with life and personal growth trait measures, but primarily during sunny and cold conditions on a high plateau (PG: Pearson r = 0.51; SWL: r = 0.70) and not significantly in stormy and wet weather in a mountain forest. In addition, experience narratives that correspond to strongest agreement to feeling at home in nature were examined for shared themes and synthesized into six dimensions: focus on sensory experiences at a particular moment, self-reflection, wonder, appreciation of beauty, positive emotions, and insight of relation to nature. These findings actualize the notion of wonder, aroused by sudden feelings or by reflection, as a salient ingredient in feeling at home in wilderness. The finding of feeling at home in nature, as the most important feature relating to feelings and wellbeing, is discussed in relation to self-awareness, philosophical thinking, and potential ethical awareness.

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Section: Core Characteristics Of Aesthetic Experiences In the Wildernessmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Feeling at Home in the Wilderness: Environmental Conditions, Well-Being and Aesthetic Experience

2020

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“…Ecological influence looks at how features of natural and built environments can affect human psychological processes and behaviors (Oishi and Graham, 2010;Oishi, 2014;Rentfrow and Jokela, 2016). For example, extraversion and happiness were found to be inversely correlated with the number of mountains present in the state (Oishi et al, 2015). The ecological perspective is important in explaining causes of psychological differences.…”

Section: The Causes Of Geographical Differences In Psychological Phenmentioning

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Where You Are Is Who You Are? The Geographical Account of Psychological Phenomena

Chen

Lai

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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Geographical psychology aims to study the spatial distribution of psychological phenomenon at different levels of geographical analysis and their relations to macrolevel important societal outcomes. The geographical perspective provides a new way of understanding interactions between humankind psychological processes and distal macro-environments. Studies have identified the spatial organizations of a wide range of psychological constructs, including (but not limited among) personality, individualism/collectivism, cultural tightness-looseness, and well-being; these variations have been plotted over a range of geographical units (e.g., neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries) and have been linked to a broad array of political, economic, social, public health, and other social consequences. Future research should employ multilevel analysis, taking advantage of more deliberated causality test methods and big data techniques, to further examine the emerging and evolving mechanisms of geographical differences in psychological phenomena.

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“…Future research can also examine these questions at varying units of analysis (e.g., counties, countries), which will help reduce some of these concerns while replicating these patterns in different contexts with larger sample sizes. Another approach to examining geographic effects on interpersonal behavior would be to randomly assign individuals to experimental conditions to see which features of an environment predict intentions for mobility and responses to social influences (Motyl et al, 2014;Oishi et al, 2015).…”

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Is Virginia for Lovers? Geographic variation in adult attachment orientation

Chopik¹,

Motyl²

2017

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People often use relationships to characterize and describe places. Yet, little research examines whether people’s relationships and relational style vary across geography. The current study examined geographic variation in adult attachment orientation in a sample of 127,070 adults from the 50 United States. The states that were highest in attachment anxiety tended to be in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast region of the United States. The states that were highest in attachment avoidance tended to be in the frontier region of the United States. State-level avoidance was related to state-level indicators of relationship status, social networks, and volunteering behavior. The findings are discussed in the context of the mechanisms that may give rise to regional variation in relational behavior.

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Personality and geography: Introverts prefer mountains

Cited by 41 publications

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Feeling at Home in the Wilderness: Environmental Conditions, Well-Being and Aesthetic Experience

Feeling at Home in the Wilderness: Environmental Conditions, Well-Being and Aesthetic Experience

Where You Are Is Who You Are? The Geographical Account of Psychological Phenomena

Is Virginia for Lovers? Geographic variation in adult attachment orientation

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