Psychological Benefits of Green Workplaces (02-20-09)
Recent research by the General Services Administration (GSA) provides additional evidence that working in an environmentally responsible workplace has positive psychological implications.
Recent research by the General Services Administration (GSA) provides additional evidence that working in an environmentally responsible workplace has positive psychological implications.
If mother mice are exposed to an enriched environment (for example one containing novel objects as well as opportunities for social interaction and exercise), their young also benefit cognitively.
The Wilson Quarterly uses information reported by Thomas Dohmen in Economic Inquiry to support some sports fans’ contentions that referees favor the home team.
Clay, writing in the Monitor on Psychology, reports information indicating that neither adults nor children can effectively perform several tasks at the same time.
Play England, the United Kingdom’s Department for Children, Schools and Families, and DCMS have identified straightforward principles for the design of successful play areas.
In a report about current office design practices prepared by the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce and DEGW, famed researcher Frank Duffy of DEGW states, “Places and spaces will become far more – not less – important, in our new world of technologically enhanced, knowledge-based work."
The psychologically restorative effects of nature have been extolled for some time, by Stephen and Rachel Kaplan, among others.
US Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED points can be awarded for the creation of “healthful, comfortable, and productive workplaces,” i.e., those that are ergonomically strong.
Recent research has indicated significant influences of office lighting on worker experience.
Recent articles explore the psychological ramifications of workplace physical features, as well as how these physical features interact with socially constructed elements of organizations, such as corporate cultures.