Aesthetics and Use (04-06-17)
Research by Wu and his team identified new links between aesthetics and use.
Research by Wu and his team identified new links between aesthetics and use.
Brick, Sherman and Kim studied when people were more or less likely to behave in pro-environmental ways.
Zohar-Shai and Tzelgov confirmed that our mental number line (MNL) runs from left to right with smaller values to the left.
Ebbensgaard reports on landscape design that engineers sensory experiences.
The lighting in hospital intensive care units influences patients' wellbeing, even a year after they are discharged from the hospital.
Taylor and Spehar report that seeing moderately complex fractals reduces stress
Batra and his colleagues investigated the relationship between tasting spicy food or seeing spicy food and how aggressive people are.
Hearing nature sounds does indeed relax people who are stressed.
Schutte and her team have learned that time spent in virtual reality nature, compared to time spent in virtual reality urban spaces, can lead to better moods.
Halali and colleagues learned that just thinking about temperature has a serious effect on how our brains work.