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After listening to live guitar music with vocal accompaniment for 30 minutes, on average, pediatric hospital patients (aged 3 months to 14 years) had higher blood oxygen levels than before they listened to the music.
People listening to dissonant music perform better on cognitive tasks than people listening to more pleasant music.
People who can more accurately mark the midpoint of horizontal lines are more moved emotionally by abstract paintings.
Many recent research studies have shown that, in general, when people are in a good mood they think more broadly and that aspects of the physical environment can lead to good moods.
Researcher Byoung-Suk Kweon from the University of Michigan has investigated why children do, or do not, walk or bike to school.
Pedestrians using mobile phones are distracted and less aware of information in the environment that surrounds them.
Janneke Joly’s dissertation research details how thinking about other people influences us toward positive behavior.
Senior citizens are being injured on escalators more frequently now than in the past.
People exposed to danger signals in their environments make more extreme judgments of the fairness of situations that are not in any way related to the danger signal than people not exposed to the same signals.
Canada’s National Research Council Institute for Research in Construction (NRC-IRC) has developed a suite of space design software tools that are available free or for a nominal fee at their website (archived: https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/achievements/highlights/2007/daylight_autonomy_distribution.html).