TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Simulated walks through dangerous alleys: Impacts of features and progress on fear
JO  - Journal of environmental psychology
A1  - Wang, Kevin
A1  - Taylor, Ralph B.
SP  - 269
EP  - 283
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0272-4944
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.07.006
ID  - ref1
ER  -