The interaction between humans and their living environments is of ubiquitous nature, however the relationship between environmental psychology and cognitive neuropsychology has scarcely been explored. Environmental psychology has approached the human-environment relation through psychological concepts such as affordance, attachment, identity, safety, or aesthetic preference. Cognitive neuropsychology, on the other hand, frequently uses houses as stimuli in object- and face-processing research. This study combines concepts from the two disciplines (cognitive neuropsychology and environmental psychology) to explore the interrelation between the architecture of living environments, human cognition and emotion.

Using network analysis, we aimed to examine the underlying relationship between self-reported psychological attributes, and to explore the role of differences between three countries in appraisals of house facades. To that end, we used 50 images of house facades selected from a well-controlled data set of Canadian houses (DalHouses). 305 participants from Denmark, Germany, and Canada rated the houses on 12 psychological attribute dimensions.

Results showed the highest strength for the nodes “friendliness”, “likability”, “invitingness”, “safety”, and “freedom”, while “typicality” and “familiarity” were unexpectedly low in strength. In terms of cultural differences, the three countries diverged in some correlations, e.g. facelikeness and loneliness, loneliness and freedom, but not in others, e.g. typicality and safety. Similar to the DalHouses study, "facelikeness" was not correlated with “typicality” nor with “liking”.

Taken together, the present results identify psychological attributes that cluster together and could be particularly important in the characterization of house facades on a universal level, but also specific to different cultural and geographical backgrounds.

人类与其生活环境之间的相互作用是无处不在的，但环境心理学与认知神经心理学之间的关系却鲜有探讨。环境心理学通过诸如可供性、依恋、身份、安全或审美偏好等心理概念来研究人与环境的关系。另一方面，认知神经心理学经常在对象和面部处理研究中使用房屋作为刺激。本研究结合两个学科（认知神经心理学和环境心理学）的概念，探索生活环境的架构、人类认知和情感之间的相互关系。

通过网络分析，我们旨在检查自我报告的心理属性之间的潜在关系，并探讨三个国家之间的差异在房屋外墙评估中的作用。为此，我们使用了从控制良好的加拿大房屋数据集 (DalHouses) 中选择的 50 张房屋外墙图像。来自丹麦、德国和加拿大的 305 名参与者根据 12 个心理属性维度对房屋进行评分。

结果显示，“友好”、“可爱”、“邀请”、“安全”和“自由”节点的强度最高，而“典型性”和“熟悉度”的强度出乎意料地低。在文化差异方面，这三个国家在一些相关性方面存在差异，例如长相和孤独、孤独和自由，但在其他方面则不存在，例如典型性和安全性。与 DalHouses 的研究类似，“脸型”与“典型性”或“喜欢”无关。

总而言之，目前的结果确定了聚集在一起的心理属性，并且在普遍层面上的房屋立面特征中可能特别重要，但也特定于不同的文化和地理背景。