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    A laboratory study of the psychological impact of light pollution in national parks

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    Authors
    Benfield, J.
    Nutt, R.
    Taff, B.
    Miller, Z.
    Costigan, H.
    Newman, Peter
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Benfield, J. and Nutt, R. and Taff, B. and Miller, Z. and Costigan, H. and Newman, P. 2018. A laboratory study of the psychological impact of light pollution in national parks. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 57: pp. 67-72.
    Source Title
    Journal of Environmental Psychology
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.06.006
    ISSN
    0272-4944
    School
    Sustainability Policy Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73440
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2018 Elsevier Ltd Light pollution is ubiquitous in much of the developed and developing world, including rural and wilderness areas. Other sources of pollution, such as noise or motorized vehicle emissions, are known to impact the perceived quality of natural settings as well as the psychological well-being and satisfaction of visitors to those locations, but the effects of light pollution on visitors to natural settings is largely unstudied. Using experimental manipulations of light pollution levels in virtual reality simulations of three U.S. National Parks, the current study aimed to provide initial evidence of an effect on visitors. Results show that light pollution impacts a range of psychological and scene evaluation dimensions but that pristine night skies are not necessarily viewed as the ideal, likely due to being viewed as unfamiliar or unrealistic because so few have experienced the true baseline.

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