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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.09.007
	Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality?
	Yang J.; Zhou Q.; Liu X.; Liu M.; Qu S.; Bi J.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	0959-3780
起始页码	104
结束页码	113
卷号	53
英文摘要	Understanding how the lay public judge air pollution is of high significance for creating effective pollution control targets in China. Emotion theories have great potential to advance relevant knowledge. Taking advantage of an environmental psychophysiological experiment in Nanjing, China, this study uncovers the underlying mechanism of why Chinese people have a biased perception towards improved air quality. The results from both self-report and physiological data first demonstrated individuals’ emotional habituation to their surrounding pollution level. The participants were prone to have the most neutral emotional responses at around 42 μg/m3 PM2.5 concentration, which matched well with the average PM2.5 concentrations of daylight hours in Nanjing. As PM2.5 pollution improved (worsened), participants’ pleasant (unpleasant) visceral reactions were thereby intensified. However, due to the Peak-end Rule, some extreme emotional experiences caused by heavily PM2.5-polluted events in winter may overwhelm the public memory. Such negative emotions lead to incorrect judgments about overall improved air quality. The results also showed that people lacked defensive motivational arousal towards bad air quality. We suggest that the government should pay more attention to avoiding the “Peak” effect of heavily polluted weather, and promote individual adaptive behaviors. To our best knowledge, this is the first research introducing a psychological experiment into the perception study of air pollution. Great opportunity exists to further extend this novel method into understanding other environmental issues. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Emotional responses; PM2.5; Psychophysiological experiment
学科领域	air quality; atmospheric pollution; concentration (composition); daylight; environmental issue; environmental quality; habituation; particulate matter; perception; pollution control; psychology; China; Jiangsu; Nanjing [Jiangsu]
语种	英语
scopus关键词	air quality; atmospheric pollution; concentration (composition); daylight; environmental issue; environmental quality; habituation; particulate matter; perception; pollution control; psychology; China; Jiangsu; Nanjing [Jiangsu]
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117086
作者单位	State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States; School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-1041, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang J.,Zhou Q.,Liu X.,et al. Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality?[J],2018,53.
APA	Yang J.,Zhou Q.,Liu X.,Liu M.,Qu S.,&Bi J..(2018).Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality?.Global Environmental change,53.
MLA	Yang J.,et al."Biased perception misguided by affect: How does emotional experience lead to incorrect judgments about environmental quality?".Global Environmental change 53(2018).