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Experimental mood manipulation does not induce change in preference for natural landscapes
Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)
|July 22, 2015
Summary
This study investigated how induced moods affect landscape preferences. Unlike previous findings, artificially induced emotions did not reliably predict preferences for "prospect" or "refuge" landscapes, questioning the mood-as-motivator model.
Area of Science:
- Environmental Psychology
- Evolutionary Psychology
Background:
- Emotions evolved as adaptive mechanisms motivating behavior.
- Previous research linked anxiety to
- refuge
- landscape preference, and anger/cheerfulness to
- prospect
- landscapes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To replicate and test the mood-as-motivator model of landscape preference.
- To examine the relationship between experimentally induced moods and preference for
- prospect
- versus
- refuge
- landscapes.
Main Methods:
- 80 participants self-induced one of four moods: anger, sadness, anxiety, or joy.
- Participants then rated preference for 14 landscape photographs.
- A between-subjects design was employed.
Main Results:
- Hypotheses were not supported; induced moods did not predict landscape preferences as expected.
- Findings contrast with previous research linking specific moods to
- prospect
- or
- refuge
- preferences.
Conclusions:
- Experimentally induced moods may lack ecological validity for testing the mood-as-motivator model.
- Further research with clinically dysphoric populations is recommended to assess practical value.
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