This study investigated how viewing a variety of different combination of pair-planting affects the psychological and physiological reactions of Chinese male individuals, and compare to Koreans, Americans and Japanese. For this purpose, eye movement and impression evaluation of 28 Chinese male individuals were collected. The evidences confirmed that Chinese individuals prefer looking at the trees but not the interval space between them. This behavior is similar to American and Korean subjects but differ to Japanese who paid comparatively more attention to the interval space. The results show that, Chinese participants are highly sensitive to size of trees, whereby, they paid more attention for the big trees as compared to the small ones. Impression evaluation showed Chinese participants preferred symmetrical tree pair-planting rather than other patterns, and dislike different sized pair-planting just like Americans and Koreans. On the other hand, a quite number of Japanese subjects preferred asymmetrical pair-planting. Thus, visual cognitive characteristics is considered to be correlated with preference: tree concentrated visual attention correlated to symmetrical tree pair-planting preference, while interval space visual attention correlated to asymmetrical pair-planting preference. Moreover, in case of Chinese subjects, unbalanced visual attention related to negative evaluation especially when the pair-planting is asymmetrical.
