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DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.09.007 |
Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality? | |
Yang, Jianxun1; Zhou, Qi1; Liu, Xingyu1; Liu, Miaomiao1; Qu, Shen2; Bi, Jun1 | |
2018-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
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ISSN | 0959-3780 |
EISSN | 1872-9495 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 53页码:104-113 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Peoples R China; USA |
英文摘要 | Understanding how the lay public judge air pollution is of high significance for creating effective pollution control targets in China. Emotion theories have great potential to advance relevant knowledge. Taking advantage of an environmental psychophysiological experiment in Nanjing, China, this study uncovers the underlying mechanism of why Chinese people have a biased perception towards improved air quality. The results from both self-report and physiological data first demonstrated individuals' emotional habituation to their surrounding pollution level. The participants were prone to have the most neutral emotional responses at around 42 mu g/m(3) PM2.5 concentration, which matched well with the average PM2.5 concentrations of daylight hours in Nanjing. As PM2.5 pollution improved (worsened), participants' pleasant (unpleasant) visceral reactions were thereby intensified. However, due to the Peak-end Rule, some extreme emotional experiences caused by heavily PM2.5-polluted events in winter may overwhelm the public memory. Such negative emotions lead to incorrect judgments about overall improved air quality. The results also showed that people lacked defensive motivational arousal towards bad air quality. We suggest that the government should pay more attention to avoiding the "Peak" effect of heavily polluted weather, and promote individual adaptive behaviors. To our best knowledge, this is the first research introducing a psychological experiment into the perception study of air pollution. Great opportunity exists to further extend this novel method into understanding other environmental issues. |
英文关键词 | PM2.5 Emotional responses Psychophysiological experiment |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000455061900009 |
WOS关键词 | VEHICULAR AIR-POLLUTION ; ANNOYANCE |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Geography |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/37798 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Nanjing Univ, Sch Environm, State Key Lab Pollut Control & Resource Reuse, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 2.Univ Michigan, Sch Nat Resources & Environm, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Yang, Jianxun,Zhou, Qi,Liu, Xingyu,et al. Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality?[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2018,53:104-113. |
APA | Yang, Jianxun,Zhou, Qi,Liu, Xingyu,Liu, Miaomiao,Qu, Shen,&Bi, Jun.(2018).Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality?.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,53,104-113. |
MLA | Yang, Jianxun,et al."Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality?".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 53(2018):104-113. |
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