Probing the Person-Patina Relationship: A Correlational Study on the Psychology of Senescent Environments

Wells, Jeremy C.

Probing the Person-Patina Relationship: A Correlational Study on the Psychology of Senescent Environments

dc.contributor.author	Wells, Jeremy C.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-27T19:24:04Z
dc.date.available	2020-07-27T19:24:04Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description	This data repository consists of the following documents: - "Wells - Probing the Person-Patina Relationship (pre-print).pdf": Pre-print, working paper of the published journal article. - "Person-patina study - survey responses.csv": raw survey responses - "Person-patina study - survey instrument.pdf": survey instrument	en_US
dc.description	Partial funding for Open Access provided by the UMD Libraries' Open Access Publishing Fund.
dc.description.abstract	There is a lack of research on people’s psychological perceptions to decay or patina that is part of the historic environment. Built heritage conservation doctrine and law are based on the assumption that all people have a similar, positive aesthetic perception to patina in the built environment, although there are very few empirical studies that have attempted to confirm or challenge this assumption. This study is based on the statistical analysis of survey data from 864 people in the United States who ranked 24 images of old, decayed building materials and 7 control images of new building materials based on aesthetic qualities, condition, and perceived age. The results indicate that people do not like decayed earthen building materials, concrete, or ferrous metals and have a neutral opinion of the aesthetic qualities of aged brick, preferring new brick as well as aged wood. While there are small differences based on race, ethnicity, and gender, the largest difference in responses is between people who work in the historic preservation/CRM field and those who do not. This finding appears to indicate that people who work in these fields have a different psychological response to decay/patina in the built environment than laypeople, which has important ramifications in terms of decision-making processes regarding interventions in the older built environment.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Funding for the study came from the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park.	en_US
dc.description.uri	https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.335
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/yjuk-ee8o
dc.identifier.citation	Wells, J. C. (2020). Probing the Person-Patina Relationship: A Correlational Study on the Psychology of Senescent Environments. Collabra: Psychology, 6(1).
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26348
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation	en_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Historic Preservation	en_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland	en_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, MD)	en_us
dc.subject	historic preservation	en_US
dc.subject	environmental psychology	en_US
dc.subject	patina	en_US
dc.subject	age value	en_US
dc.subject	preservation practice	en_US
dc.subject	decay	en_US
dc.title	Probing the Person-Patina Relationship: A Correlational Study on the Psychology of Senescent Environments	en_US
dc.type	Other	en_US