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Attenuating subjective crowding through beauty: an online study on the interaction between environment aesthetics, typology and crowdedness

Mavros, P., Ngoi, Z. L., Kirk, S., Te, A., Grübel, J., Melgar, L. A., Guizzo, A. O., & Makowski, D.

2023 · Preprint

How crowded a place feels is not simply how many people are in it. This online study crosses environment type with crowd density to ask whether a more beautiful environment makes the same crowd feel less crowded.

Abstract

This paper reports on an online study to investigate the interaction between the environment typology, and crowdedness with aesthetic perceptions of the environment.

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ezybm

Keywords: Aesthetics · Urban Environment

Cite

Mavros, P., Ngoi, Z. L., Kirk, S., Te, A., Grübel, J., Melgar, L. A., Guizzo, A. O., & Makowski, D. (2023). Attenuating subjective crowding through beauty: an online study on the interaction between environment aesthetics, typology and crowdedness. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ezybm

See also

• Disentangling the social from the aesthetic: neuropsychology for urban design — Mavros, P., Olszewska-Guizzo, A., & Makowski, D. (2023)
• Self-reference and emotional reaction drive aesthetic judgment — Salgues, S., Jacquot, A., Makowski, D., Tahar, C., Baekeland, J., Arcangeli, M., Dokic, J., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M. (2024)
• The Beauty and the Self: A Common Mnemonic Advantage Between Aesthetic Judgment and Self-Reference — Lee, H., Jacquot, A., Makowski, D., Arcangeli, M., Dokic, J., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M. (2024)