Added human and mechanical sounds worsen park beauty ratings most on beautiful scenes

Evidence

The results confirm that every added soundtrack of mechanical or human origin decreased the rating, and this effect was more evident at higher sound levels. In psychological terms, serenity was decreased and hostility increased. These effects were stronger for scenes of great beauty. … In particular, noise produced by aircraft impacts in a direct way the rating in park evaluation procedures; aircraft noise has produced a larger variability in the responses than all the other administrated sounds. Ground traffic was found impacting independently from the volume at which it was added. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 2310

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the claim about attractive spaces suffering more from traffic noise than unattractive ones do. — connects to: Natural sounds raise crowding tolerance while technological sounds lower it — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 2305; Attractive spaces suffer more from traffic noise than unattractive ones do. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1094; Visual bias consistently outranks sound in public nature exhibits — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1379 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Soundscape quality depends on wanted-versus-unwanted context, not decibel level #expands (0.85) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1452
• Landscape appreciation modulates how much noise annoys listeners #expands (0.82) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 957
• Visual bias consistently outranks sound in public nature exhibits #exemplifies (0.80) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1379
• Visual urbanization context changes how natural but not anthropogenic sounds are judged. #qualifies (0.78) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1124
• Visual appearance of loudspeakers shifts listener preference ratings #expands (0.75) — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1058
• Reducing physical noise does not automatically improve perceived urban comfort #corroborates (0.72) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1047
• A soundscape is composed of audible events rather than visible objects #expands (0.72) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 28