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Dr. Holt
Project Proposal
Introduction
The purpose of this project is to understand how literature and visual stimuli
compliment each other. Famous nature poets such as John Muir or Henry David
Thoreau use several literary devices to simulate the emotional reaction of being present
research. In this experiment, readers will be asked to complete a survey outlining their
emotional reaction in several categories. There will be three groups in the experiment.
Group 1 will consist of readers who will read a poem and submit their reaction. Group 2
will read the same poem, however they will be presented several photos/silent videos of
the landscapes being described. The last group will be given only the photos/videos.
Background
I love nature. Ever since day one, I’ve always loved spending time in nature
hiking, backpacking, and mountain biking. I’ve also always had an emotional connection
with nature: a feeling of happiness and groundedness. Despite the fact that I am not an
avid reader, when I read something related to nature, it has an immediate effect on me. I
want to drop everything and go outside. Knowing my emotional connection to nature, I
wanted to find out how it affects other people, and how literature might compliment it.
Context
The most important voice is that of reader/test subject. As I am collecting data to draw
my own conclusions, the most important voices in my project are those of the test
subjects.
where unknown authors can submit their work to be viewed. The staff’s
job is to review and rate the works submitted. These people are incredibly
himself.
Timeline
5/13-17 Symposium
Annotated Bibliography
green.harvard.edu/news/beauty-nature.
Why is nature beautiful? What kind of emotional reaction do humans have
alive. He also said “He should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye,
because it expresses a thought which is to him good: and this, because of the
same power which sees through his eyes, is seen in that spectacle.”
reaction.
Johnsen, Svein Åge Kjøs, and Leif W. Rydstedt. “Active Use of the Natural
ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/633/html.
This is a scientific study where some participants were asked to only use a
picture of nature in their everyday life as their exposure to nature. It was found
that happier people looked at the picture more. This led the study to conclude
that personality and mood had a connection with an individual's desire for
exposure to nature. This study captures the essence of my project: how nature
many emotional reaction tests and other sources to help me figure out the
most effective and reliable way to judge a person's emotions without having to
The natural world has been a focus in literature since its start. Many
writers throughout history have described nature and its inhabitants. This
article explains several nature writers and how their view dictated their
description. For this project, it’s incredibly important to understand how these
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201601/what-are-basic-emoti
ons.
This article outlines the general emotions and emotional triggers we have.
The article talks in parts about how ecological changes can induce an
emotional reaction. It also talks about just how abstract studying emotions
are, and attempts to categorize them into building blocks in which more