Attachment to the physical dimension of places.

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Social relationships had been important in explanation and prediction of attachment to places. Although some have asserted the importance of physical aspects of the environment in the formation of attachment ties to a place, the social environment is required for the formation of bonds to a place, although strong emphasis on the social aspect has been questioned and the importance of the physical environment noted. The present objective in two studies was to test whether college students (ns = 30 and 27) show a preference for a place they know, independently of the social interactions developed in them. Results confirmed the hypothesis, i.e., after a very brief stay in a certain place with nobody else there, these college students preferred that place to another with which they had not had previous contact.

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Author/s: Hidalgo, M Carmen (MC); Hernández, Bernardo (B);

Affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Social, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071, Malaga, Spain. mchidalgo(-atsign-)uma.es

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Psychological reports (Psychol Rep), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Dec; vol 91 (issue 3 Pt 2) : pp 1177-82

Dates: Created 2003/02/14; Completed 2003/04/07; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12585533, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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