A thought in the park: The influence of naturalness and low-level visual features on expressed thoughts
A thought in the park: The influence of naturalness and low-level visual features on expressed thoughts
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2018.01.011
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发表时间：
2018-05
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3.4
通讯作者：
Kathryn E. Schertz;Sonya S. Sachdeva;Omid Kardan;Hiroki Kotabe;Kathleen L Wolf;M. Berman
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作者：
Kathryn E. Schertz;Sonya S. Sachdeva;Omid Kardan;Hiroki Kotabe;Kathleen L Wolf;M. Berman
先前的研究表明，一个人所处环境的物理特征对情感和认知有广泛的影响。其他研究表明，一个人的想法会影响情绪和行为，在这个由三部分组成的研究计划中，我们调查了环境的物理特征如何改变思想内容。在一项研究中，我们分析了公园游客写的数千篇日记，以研究公园的低级和语义视觉特征如何与不同的思想主题相关联。在第二项研究中，我们通过进行一项在线研究来验证我们的生态结果，该研究要求参与者在想象他们正在参观公园的同时写日记，以确保研究1的结果不是由于公园游客的选择偏差。在第三项研究中，我们通过实验操纵特定视觉特征的暴露，以确定它们是否会在更广义的条件下引发对相同思想主题的思考。研究3的结果表明，感知自然性和高非直边对“自然”思维具有潜在的因果作用，并具有显著的正交互作用。结果还显示，自然和非直边对“心灵与生命之旅”相关话题的思考存在潜在的因果影响，感知到的自然与感知到的自然存在负相关关系，而感知到的非直边与感知到的自然存在正相关关系。我们还观察到非直边密度与自然度在“精神与生命之旅”方面存在显著的正交互作用。这些结果对建筑环境的设计影响人类的反思和福祉具有启示意义。
Prior research has shown that the physical characteristics of one’s environment have wide ranging effects on affect and cognition. Other research has demonstrated that one’s thoughts have impacts on mood and behavior, and in this three-part research program we investigated how physical features of the environment can alter thought content. In one study, we analyzed thousands of journal entries written by park visitors to examine how low-level and semantic visual features of the parks correlate with different thought topics. In a second study, we validated our ecological results by conducting an online study where participants were asked to write journal entries while imagining they were visiting a park, to ensure that results from Study 1 were not due to selection bias of park visitors. In the third study, we experimentally manipulated exposure to specific visual features to determine if they induced thinking about the same thought topics under more generalized conditions. Results from Study 3 demonstrated a potential causal role for perceived naturalness and high non-straight edges on thinking about “Nature”, with a significant positive interaction. Results also showed a potential causal effect of naturalness and non-straight edges on thinking about topics related to “Spiritual & Life Journey”, with perceived naturalness having a negative relationship and non-straight edges having a positive relationship. We also observed a significant positive interaction between non-straight edge density and naturalness in relation to “Spiritual & Life Journey”. These results have implications for the design of the built environment to influence human reflection and well-being.