The effect of instructions on scenic beauty ratings of riverscapes and the prediction of those ratings by environmental questionaires

dc.contributor.authorLaws, Eric L.en
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:33:16Zen
dc.date.adate2009-04-08en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:33:16Zen
dc.date.issued1990-04-30en
dc.date.rdate2013-04-11en
dc.date.sdate2009-04-08en
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to assess the impact of instructions on scenic beauty ratings of riverscapes. 128 college student observers viewed and rated 200 slides of riverscapes for overall scenic beauty with a magnitude estimation scaling procedure. There were two groups of observers differing in the instructions each received. One group received biased instructions which emphasized the presence of industry while the other group received neutral instructions. The hypothesis that overall scenic beauty ratings would be lower for the biased instructional group was supported. Also, it was found that the Easy Living scale from the Leisure Activities Blank (McKechnie, 1975) interacting with the effects if the manipulation predicted these ratings.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentviii, 75 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04082009-041433en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04082009-041433/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/31660en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1990.L397.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 22770810en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1990.L397en
dc.subject.lcshGeographical perceptionen
dc.subject.lcshLandscape assessmenten
dc.titleThe effect of instructions on scenic beauty ratings of riverscapes and the prediction of those ratings by environmental questionairesen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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