The Power of Placebos (12-20-10)
Research done at the Harvard Medical School indicates that medical placebos are effective at reducing symptoms – even when the people taking them realize that they don’t have active ingredients.
Research done at the Harvard Medical School indicates that medical placebos are effective at reducing symptoms – even when the people taking them realize that they don’t have active ingredients.
Brunia and Hartjes-Gosseling conducted a case study at a Dutch government agency to learn about workspace personalization when offices are not assigned to individuals.
People who have been following space syntax research will not be at all surprised by a study recently completed at the Harvard Medical School.
As another new year rolls around, it seems timely to consider the cumulative effects of workplace stress.
New evidence indicates that the physical form of our brain causes us to literally see the same scene differently than others, whose brains inevitably are not identical to ours.
Maddux and his colleagues studied cultural differences in the endowment effect (the tendency of owners to value objects more than potential buyers of those objects).
High-intensity teleworkers have higher levels of job satisfaction than people who work primarily in collocated offices.
European researchers, using MRI technology, have found that the color of light we are experiencing influences our emotional processing.
State borders matter, both legally and psychologically.
New research indicates how important it is for place design research and conversations to be conducted in the languages of the people that will ultimately use spaces being developed.