Abstract
Many contemporary work and home environments produce attentional fatigue. One way to recover from attentional fatigue is to place oneself in environments that promote feelings of tranquility. One approach to the systematic study of environment-tranquility relations is to frame the research within attention restoration theory (ART). Tranquility (e.g., feeling peaceful and relaxed) facilitates restoration and may be evoked by higher degrees of coherence. Coherence, in this context, refers to environmental arrangements that are structured in such a way that a setting is easy to comprehend. Visual and auditory coherence can be nested within two emotional genres: one is “pastoral,” and the other is “sublime.” Repeated-measures ANOVA yielded significant differences among different combinations of visual and auditory coherence. Although the more pastoral combinations increased perceived tranquility levels, this study verified that individuals may want to seek out less stimulating environments to optimize restorative benefits. Key Words: Restoration—Tranquility—Coherence—Visual stimuli—Auditory stimuli.
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