@article{ref1,
title="Simulated walks through dangerous alleys: Impacts of features and progress on fear",
journal="Journal of environmental psychology",
year="2006",
author="Wang, Kevin and Taylor, Ralph B.",
volume="26",
number="4",
pages="269-283",
abstract="The current work considered how concerns for personal safety varied as respondents viewed two sequences of slides depicting walks down two dangerous urban alleys. It extended the Nasar/Fisher model of site-level fear-inspiring features by applying it to urban alleys and by controlling for relative position along a pathway. In Study 1, consistent with the Nasar/Fisher model, multilevel models linked refuge positively to fear in both alleys as did a prospect/escape composite. In Study 2 respondents estimated day and night time fear, day and night time chances of being attacked, and provided their own ratings of Nasar/Fisher features. All three features significantly affected fear. The replication also observed effects of being Chinese-born, and tentatively explored connections between mystery, danger, and Nasar/Fisher features. Results confirmed that safety concerns varied as respondents proceeded down an alley, and such variation was a function of both Nasar/Fisher features, where they were in the alley, and who they were.<p />",
language="",
issn="0272-4944",
doi="10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.07.006",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.07.006"
}