Results Children before puberty show the highest preferences for low trees and low mountains landscapes. Interestingly the basic landscapes these children have experienced around Vienna are low tree, low mountains and high tree, high mountains landscapes. This picture is reversed after puberty. Younger children rate higher and males rate higher. Two way are between age and trees age and mountains and sex and mountains.
Younger children prefer less trees and mountains.
Females prefer mountains. The effects of experience with mountain type landscapes are also significant. With experience prepuberty higher have general higher ratings and after puberty trees are rated highest. Discussion Complexity, savanna theory and imprinting The results show a partial replication of the Balling and Falk hypotheses. Prepuberty children prefer savanna type landscapes of low complexity.