Mystery, complexity, legibility and coherence: A meta-analysis

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Key concepts in a framework for analysing visual landscape character (2006, methodology): “It has been identified as of importance in forest landscapes, in management guidelines (Ode & Fry, 2002) and for landscape preferences (Stamps, 2004).”
Mystery and Preference in Within-Forest Settings (2007, background): “Results have been generally supportive of modest positive relations between the predictors and preference (Gifford, 2002; Kaplan, Kaplan, & Ryan, 1998) but with sufficient variability that not everyone is impressed (Stamps, 2004).”
Space and Place - Two Aspects of the Human-landscape Relationship (2007, background): “In a recent meta-analysis, Stamps (2004) directed attention to the heterogeneity of findings produced by the empirical work with the theory, which is the most extensively tested of the psychological theories on landscape preference.”
Health benefits of nature experience: Psychological, social and cultural processes (2011, background): “Stamps (2004) offers some specific recommendations for further work with this theory.”
Enclosure and Safety in Urbanscapes (2005, background): “The extensive body of work on the coherence/complexity/legibility/mystery theory of the Kaplans has also been reviewed recently (Stamps, 2004) and consequently was not included in this article.”