The Relevance of First-Time Visit Experience towards Judgment of Malioboro

Abstract

There is a massive lot of information that could be gathered in a place. However, processing a massive amount of information at once could be overwhelming for a person could handle. Therefore, there is the tendency of human minds to filter this information based on one’s existing beliefs. This is what is called confirmation bias. To understand more about this in its relation to place attachments, this study tried to observe the relevance of first-time visit experience towards their judgment of the present-day Malioboro. It is done by interviewing several people that had previously been to Malioboro. The results show that 66,6% of the participant are having correlations between their first-time visit and their judgments toward Malioboro. Also, people that were visiting Malioboro for the first time as a child with family members are more likely to have positive judgments toward Malioboro