Promote Social Behavior/Support Diversity

Physical, Social Warmth

Combatting loneliness with heat

Dog Park Design

Improving the lives of canines' best friends

Color and Personality

Signaling extraversion and openness to experience

Office Privacy and Proximity

Effects on employee bonds matter

Workplace Lighting and Judgments

Opinions of others affected

Physical and Social Warmth (06-13-19)

Research completed by Inagaki and Human confirms that there are ties between physical and social

Using Context

Assessments streamline socializing

Urban Design: Positive Repercussions (03-08-19)

Negami and colleagues investigated the psychological repercussions of urban design.

Understanding Park Use (03-07-19)

Park probed factors linked to park use.

Reactions Driving Workplace Experiences

Three factors with key effects on behavior

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