Frontiers in Psychology
Beyond stone and timber: the connotative meaning of built heritage, its associations with personal values and the mediating role of time orientations
Although people associate values with their experiences of heritage places, these are often overlooked in the preservation and reuse of historic buildings and sites. Little is known about how meanings are attributed to built heritage and how they relate to broader psychological constructs. This study explored connotative meaning using a semantic differential scale developed for built heritage, identifying three dimensions—evaluation, human connectedness, and condition—and investigated their relationships with perso …