have cast doubt on the existence of subliminal perception, which has further retarded research. He points out that many psychologists in the USA. His British background perhaps leads him to present a more unbiased approach to the phenomenon. He holds the reader’s interest as he describes the experiments made of the phenomenon over many years by numerous psychologists and physiologists, including those that he has carried out. Dixon’s book is a serious effort to counter this situation. Unfortunately, this psychological phenomenon has been the victim of a ‘bad press’ for the past 20 years, especially in the U.S.A., which has retarded research on the subject. Reviewed by Robert Baldwin* Subliminal perception for many people implies abusive mind control, for example when used in commercial advertising (see comments on second book, below). Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1973. Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media’s Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America. Subliminal Perception: The Nature of a Controversy. However the lack of discussion on the precise relationships between values, perceptions, attitudes (not to mention cognition) and topophilia made it difficult for me to grasp the overall structure of the book. Artists may find of particular interest the brief sections on the relationship between colour and spatial psychology and symbolism, the effect of the age of a person on perception and ideas of cosmography on landscape painting. This will be facilitated by the pleasant writing style. The book covers a wide range of topics and will benefit largely newcomers to the area of environmental perception, attitudes and values. and the search for environment in suburbs and new towns. The last three focus on people’s responses to various street scenes, the differences in valuations of cities in the USA. In the first three of these, the common traits, individual differences and cultural variations in environmental perception and attitudes are briefly sketched.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ģ34 Books In the second group are Chapters 2, 5, 6, 12, 13 and 14.