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work_3rca3tx2krhujfrkvhx4cmepsi	Joan Maloof	Measuring the beauty of forests	2010	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3670	473	71	To cite this Article Maloof, Joan(2010) 'Measuring the beauty of forests', International Journal of Environmental Studies, University students (N = 334) rated the mature forest as more beautiful than the young forest. Male students rated the forest as more beautiful than the females did. Keywords: Environmental aesthetics; Forest age; Serious beauty; Nature aesthetics; Gender perception (This is the 'serious beauty' hypothesis of the philosophers.) I also test whether a mature forest stand is perceived as being Males perceived the forest as more beautiful than the females when the mean of the combined ratings for both young and mature. mean spread between ratings of the young and mature forests (males = 3.2, females = 3.3; two-tailed t-test, p = 0.780), but males rated the forest as more beautiful overall (figure 2; Males rated the forest higher in beauty than the females did (Individual ratings for both young and mature	./cache/work_3rca3tx2krhujfrkvhx4cmepsi.pdf	./txt/work_3rca3tx2krhujfrkvhx4cmepsi.txt