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Mystery of Environmental Mystery

Effects of Light, Occlusion, and Depth of View

Arthur E. Stamps, III

Institute of Environmental Quality

The purpose of this article is to estimate the strengths of the relationships between judgments of mystery and amount of light, depth of view, and occlusion, whether visual and locomotive occlusion or just visual occlusion. Three experiments were conducted with totals of 145 respondents and 33 scenes. Light had the largest effect on mystery, followed by occlusion of both vision and locomotion and occlusion only of locomotion. Mystery might be a function of vision, not of locomotion. Overall, depth of view had a very small effect on mystery, but effect of depth on mystery was higher at shorter ranges than at longer ranges, suggesting that distance from observer to occluding boundary might be an influential covariate in environmental mystery.

Key Words: occlusion • light • depth of view • visual occlusion • locomotive occlusion

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 39, No. 2, 165-197 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916506288053
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