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Perceived Danger And Judged Likelihood Of Restoration, Thomas R. Herzog, Ashley E. Rector
Perceived Danger And Judged Likelihood Of Restoration, Thomas R. Herzog, Ashley E. Rector
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The authors investigated the impact of perceived danger on judged likelihood of restoration. Participants imagined that they were in a state of directed attention fatigue and then that they were taking a walk in a potentially restorative setting. The authors varied two properties of the setting in a factorial design. The setting was either a nature trail or a busy urban street, and it contained either no obvious source of danger or an ominous stalker. Measures of perceived danger and of judged likelihood of restoration were obtained. For both types of measures, in the low-danger condition the two setting categories …