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| Web URL(s): | http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/rpr/1992/Environmental/27783, Texas A&M, Ulrich.PDF
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| Material Type: | Manuscript |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Tassinary, Louis G.; Ulrich, Robert |
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| Author Affiliation: | Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, Texas A&M Univ. |
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| Monograph Title: | Human Benefits of Golf Course Views: Emotional Well-Being, Stress and Performance: [1992 Annual Report], 1992. |
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| Publishing Information: | [College Station, Texas]: Texas A&M University |
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| # of Pages: | 31 |
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| Collation: | [31] pp. |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "The initial plan was to conduct two studies. The main objective of the first study was to identify and measure the physiological and emotional effects of off-site views of golf courses and compare these effects with those resulting from viewing other common types of landscapes. The main objective of the second study was to identify and measure the effects of viewing golf courses of the performance of cognitive tasks relevant to productivity in the workplace. The major accomplishments during the first year of the grant include: Video footage has been taken in the Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Sam Houston Forest areas. On the basis of this footage, a small group of candidate sites has been chosen from a large number of potential sites within each environmental category (see Appendix 1). The videotaping was completed this fall.; The raw footage for Study 1 has been previewed and cataloged, and the final editing will be completed by the end of January, 1993.; A systematic search of the mood induction literature over the past 20 years (>200 articles)using a number of electronic data bases and bound indexes was completed. As a result, of this search, and taking into account the results from an informal pilot study (10 subjects), a music-based mood induction procedure was chosen in the place of a verbal self-instructional procedure to elicit both the positive and negative moods for the comparison conditions in Study #2.; A subset of these stimulus materials (16 musical passages) was pretested in a formal study completed in the spring (44 subjects). The results of this study persuaded us to discard 4 out of 8 potential positive stimuli and 4 out of 8 potential negative stimuli for Study #2 (see Appendix 2; Table 1 & Figure 1); Eight additional musical selections from the literature were added and were again pretested in a formal study completed this summer (110 subjects). The results of this study have allowed us to pick clearly positive and clearly negative stimuli for Study #2 (See Appendix 2; Table 2 & Figures 2 & 3).; Seventy-two color slides were made from digitized frames of our video material and pretested in a formal study completed this fall (110 subjects). The results of this study have allowed us to pick clearly positive and clearly negative video segments that represent golf course, forest, and urban environments for Study #2 (See Appendix 3: Table 3 & Figures 4-6).; All of the necessary computer, data acquisition, physiological recording, and audiovisual equipment has been purchased, tested, and installed.; The research scientist on the project (Russ Parsons, Ph.D) has completed formal training in the software environment that will be used in the lab and has written and debugged the core of the computer programs required for experimental data acquisition and control.; The results of our preliminary experiments were presented in October of this year at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. [Tassinary, L.G. (1992, October). The impact of artifact-dominated versus nature-dominated environments on stress recovery. In L.G. Tassinary (Chair), Preconvention workshop in Social Psychophysiology, Annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.]." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 13 |
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| See Also: | See also related summary article, "Human benefits of golf course views: emotional well-being, stress and performance", 1992 Environmental Research Summary [USGA], 1992, p. 22-23, R=27783. R=27783 |
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| Note: | Title page also appears as p. 00271 in the USGA Turfgrass Research Committee Reporting Binders for 1992.
Includes appendix: "Summary of visits"; pp. [2-5]
Includes appendix: "Music studies"; pp. [6-15]
Includes appendix: "Visual environments study"; pp. [16-31]
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