Cultural and Developmental Comparisons of Landscape Perceptions and Preferences

By T. Herzog, Eugene J. Herbert, R. Kaplan, C. Crooks. 2000

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Healthy nature healthy people: 'contact with nature' as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations. (2006, background): “Themajority of places that people consider favourite or restorative are natural places, and being in these places is recuperative (Kaplan and Kaplan, 1989 Rohde and Kendle, 1994; Korpela and Hartig, 1996; Herzog et al., 1997; Newell, 1997; Herzog et al., 2000)”
Adolescents' emotional affinity towards nature : a cross-societal study (2009, background): “As the research by Balling and Falk (1982) and subsequent work (e.g., Herzog et al. 2000 ) suggest, different types of natural landscapes are perceived rather differently.”
Preference and Perceived Danger as a Function of the Perceived Curvature, Length, and Width of Urban Alleys (2001, background): “As Herzog and Miller (1998) point out, echoing Hebb (1972), danger and fear can be attractive in certain contexts.”
Evolutionary Influence on Human Landscape Preference (2010, background): “Natural selection would maintain habitat preferences to the degree that they have a genetic basis (Jaenike & Holt, 1991; Rausher, 1984). According to Petit and Petit (1996), “the ability to distinguish and select among habitats is one of the most evolutionary significant traits possessed by any orga”