Eastern and Western Views (02-09-12)
Richard Nisbett and his colleagues have established that people raised in Eastern and Western cultures perceive their worlds differently.
Richard Nisbett and his colleagues have established that people raised in Eastern and Western cultures perceive their worlds differently.
As Bargh and Shalev describe, their recent research supports previous studies of embodied cognition.
Spurring creativity, in both design solutions and by people in spaces after they’ve been designed, are popular and hotly debated topics.
Researchers have found additional links between metaphorical expressions and how we live in our physical world.
It turns out that thinking about metaphors has a very particular influence on what our brains are doing.
Williams and his colleagues have reviewed the content of award-winning children’s books and found that they are devoting less attention to the natural environment.
Researchers at Baylor have collected additional evidence regarding the ways in which place communicates nonverbally.
Gray explores the influence of interpersonal interactions on experience.
People doing or using design research won’t be surprised by O’Brien and Ellsworth’s recent findings.
McCarley and his associates compared the ability of younger (early 20’s) and older (early 70’s) people to quickly pick particular information out of visual clutter.