Stimulus and Respondent Factors in Environmental Preference

Abstract

The distinction between people and environments has been a recurring theme in environmental research, but explicit studies of this distinction are rare. This paper reports ω2 estimates of the respective population variances for people and places on the criterion of preferences for environmental scenes. The stimuli ( n = 198) accounted for more preference variance than did the respondents ( n = 29). This was a replication of previous findings obtained with different experimental protocols in a different geographical location.