Plants and Residential Rehab (12-30-10)
During a recent study, addition of new plants in indoor common areas at a residential rehabilitation center improved the self-perceived well-being of pulmonary patients.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Healthcare
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Improve Mood/Increase Feelings of Wellbeing
- Promote Physical Health/Improve Health Outcomes
- Plants
- Health Care Environments
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Autism and Vision (12-29-10)
Autistic school-age children have been found to be good at visual searchers in small-scale settings such as on a computer screen, and Pellicano and her associates tested whether these skills extended to more true-to-life settings.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Any Designed Environment
- Ease Wayfinding
- Enhance Experience
- Increase Productivity/Performance
- Visual Information
- Visual Quality and Visual Diversity
- Autistic
- Children
- Framework for Reaction to Place
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Extreme Communicating Through Possessions (12-28-10)
Communicating through possessions has been popular since there have been possessions, but some people have always been able to “speak” louder in this way than others.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Any Designed Environment
- Exhibit Spaces (Museums and Zoos)
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Improve Mood/Increase Feelings of Wellbeing
- Object
- Symbols
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Personality and Preference for Paintings (12-27-10)
Chamorro-Premuzic and his colleagues probed the relationship between personality and preference for paintings.
Holiday Shopping Behaviors Rooted in Our Past (12-23-10)
Holiday shopping behaviors reflect men’s and women’s traditional hunter/gatherer roles, according to a press release describing the work of Daniel Kruger at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Retail Store
- Encourage Sales
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Improve Mood/Increase Feelings of Wellbeing
- Increase Productivity/Performance
- Genders
- Framework for Reaction to Place
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Posture and Power (12-22-10)
Our seated posture influences if we think and behave as if we have power.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Any Designed Environment
- Increase Productivity/Performance
- Furniture
- Useful Design Principles
- Educational Environments
- Health Care Environments
- Leisure Environments
- Other Environments
- Residential Environments
- Workplace Environments
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Equality and Competition (12-21-10)
Ordabayeva and Chandon investigated people’s behavior when distribution of goods is fairly equal.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Any Designed Environment
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Improve Mood/Increase Feelings of Wellbeing
- Object
- Symbols
- Framework for Reaction to Place
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
The Power of Placebos (12-20-10)
Research done at the Harvard Medical School indicates that medical placebos are effective at reducing symptoms – even when the people taking them realize that they don’t have active ingredients.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Any Designed Environment
- Enhance Experience
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Improve Mood/Increase Feelings of Wellbeing
- Framework for Reaction to Place
- Design Process and Issues
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Personalizing Non-Territorial Offices (12-17-10)
Brunia and Hartjes-Gosseling conducted a case study at a Dutch government agency to learn about workspace personalization when offices are not assigned to individuals.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Workplace
- Enhance Experience
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Improve Mood/Increase Feelings of Wellbeing
- Object
- Symbols
- Framework for Reaction to Place
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Collocation Matters (12-16-10)
People who have been following space syntax research will not be at all surprised by a study recently completed at the Harvard Medical School.
- Blogs 2010
- Blog Article
- Workplace
- Increase Productivity/Performance
- Floor Plan
- Framework for Reaction to Place
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science



