Emotional response to images of wind turbines: A psychophysiological study of their visual impact on the landscape
Emotional response to images of wind turbines: A psychophysiological study of their visual impact on the landscape
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DOI：
10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.05.011
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
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9.1
通讯作者：
Talmi, Deborah
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作者：
Maehr, Anna M.;Watts, Greg R.;Talmi, Deborah
社会对风力涡轮机的接受程度是可变的，这对这种能源的实施提出了挑战。心理学研究可以为气候变化科学做出贡献。在这里，我们关注的是人们对风力涡轮机对景观的视觉影响的情绪反应，这是一个主导人们对这项技术态度的因素。实验室的参与者观看了涡轮机和其他建筑（教堂、塔塔和发电厂）与乡村景色的对比图片，并提供了心理生理学和自我报告的情绪反应测量方法。我们假设，人们对风力涡轮机的情绪反应会比对控制对象的反应更消极、更强烈，而这种差异在反对风力涡轮机的人身上会更明显。正如预测的那样，对涡轮机的心理生理反应比对教堂的反应更强烈，但与其他工业建筑没有什么不同。与预测相反，与其他工业建筑相比，涡轮机被评为不那么令人反感，更平静，相当于教堂。支持者和非支持者之间没有显著差异。我们讨论了一种使用照片处理和情感自我评估的方法如何帮助估计在规划阶段对新风轮机应用的景观视觉影响的情感反应。(C) 2015 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
Social acceptance for wind turbines is variable, providing a challenge to the implementation of this energy source. Psychological research could contribute to the science of climate change. Here we focus on the emotional responses to the visual impact of wind turbines on the landscape, a factor which dominates attitudes towards this technology. Participants in the laboratory viewed images of turbines and other constructions (churches, pylons and power-plants) against rural scenes, and provided psychophysiological and self-report measures of their emotional reactions. We hypothesised that the emotional response to wind turbines would be more negative and intense than to control objects, and that this difference would be accentuated for turbine opponents. As predicted, the psychophysiological response to turbines was stronger than the response to churches, but did not differ from that of other industrial constructions. In contrast with predictions, turbines were rated as less aversive and more calming compared with other industrial constructions, and equivalent to churches. Supporters and non-supporters did not differ significantly from each other. We discuss how a methodology using photo manipulations and emotional self-assessments can help estimate the emotional reaction to the visual impact on the landscape at the planning stage for new wind turbine applications. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.