Ultimate Choice Influenced By Number of Options (03-27-13)
Hills, Noguchi and Gibbert have learned more about how people make choices.
Hills, Noguchi and Gibbert have learned more about how people make choices.
New research on crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) dovetails with previous findings.
Kuhbandner and Pekrun studied how the color of writing influences how well information in written messages is remembered.
Fitzgerald and Danner summarize some of the ways that our evolutionary past should influence current office design; a topic that is discussed regularly here.
Researchers have known for some time that watching fish swim in fish tanks is psychologically restorative and aquariums stocked with fish are regularly used to defuse stress in spaces in which people are likely to feel tense, such as dentists’ offices.
Psychological restoration, or restocking cognitive energy is generally associated with viewing nature.
Some studies are important because they rigorously confirm our expectations. A recent investigation by Wilhelm-Stanis, Vaughan, and Kaczynski of parks does just this.
Galvan and her research team have gathered additional evidence indicating that acoustically shielded telephone booths/rooms/conversation areas are useful in workplaces, transportation hubs, healthcare facilities, and anywhere else people can potentially overhear telephone conversations.
Information collected by McGraw-Hill during its 2012 Green Schools Study indicates that there are significant benefits from greening schools.