Open AccessThe Dendro-Psychoses of J.O. Quantz
Author(s) -
Robert Sommer
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
arboriculture and urban forestry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 2155-0778
pISSN - 1935-5297
DOI - 10.48044/jauf.2001.006
Subject(s) - preference , tree (set theory) , geography , ecology , biology , psychology , evolutionary biology , zoology , mathematics , combinatorics , statistics
J.O. Quantz was an early Canadian psychologist who published an intriguing article on the origins of human attachment to trees. Based on anthropological sources and interviews with children, the paper is a forerunner of current evolutionary theories of tree preference.