Language and Experience (07-18-16)
New research confirms previous findings that the language we speak influences our experience of the physical world that surrounds us.
New research confirms previous findings that the language we speak influences our experience of the physical world that surrounds us.
Aligning cultures, values, and desired emotions
Green behavior can be linked to culture and development
Urban gardens can support cultural traditions.
Pearce and his team carefully detail variations in aesthetic evaluations across time and place, indicating how experiences have, and will, differ.
Friedrich and Elias’s recent work confirms that people whose native languages are read left to right prefer art in which any apparent motion is also from left-to-right.
Scientists have learned that by the age of 2, the performance of children’s sensory systems seems to be influenced by their national culture.
Recognizing patient concerns
Designers working with clients and users from cultures different from the ones they themselves grew up in will find research done by Yang and his team useful.
Mourey, Lam, and Oyserman investigated links between culturally appropriate situations and thinking.