Art, Psychology and Space Experience
How art is presented has a great influence on our experience in a space.
How art is presented has a great influence on our experience in a space.
Nanda (American Art Resources) and colleagues Eisen (Texas Christian University) and Owen (East Alabama Medical Center) have investigated the relationship between art viewed by psychiatric patents and their medication use.
People who were verbally reminded of their great-grandparents and their ancestors in the 15th century did better on intelligence tests than a control group not asked to consider their forebears during a study conducted by Fischer and his colleagues.
Over the last few decades much has been written, and discussed, about the role of nature in healthcare environments (including the role of visual art with nature images). In healthcare settings, the primary focus must be that loyalty in healthcare art is not towards the Artist, or the field of the Arts, but towards the patient.
Chamorro-Premuzic and his colleagues probed the relationship between personality and preference for paintings.
Mastandrea and his colleagues investigated preferences for two different art styles (figurative and abstract) and architectural styles (classic and contemporary).
Even knowledge about daydreaming can inform place design.
What people are daydreaming about influences how quickly they forget recently learned material, so different daydream cues are useful in particular situations.
Knight and Haslam corroborated the findings of environmental psychologists, who have established the importance of workers’ control over their physical office environments.
Bordens was interested in learning if supplying viewers with information about the historical context of the artistic style of a piece of art would make them feel more positive about the art.