Positive Mood and Creativity (12-14-10)
In this blog, I frequently discuss ways the physical environment can be used to increase the likelihood that people are in a positive mood.
In this blog, I frequently discuss ways the physical environment can be used to increase the likelihood that people are in a positive mood.
Researchers affiliated with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council have investigated how older people experience streetscapes.
As another new year rolls around, it seems timely to consider the cumulative effects of workplace stress.
Living in a walkable neighborhood can be good for both your physical and mental health.
Patients on ventilators listening to music experience less stress than ventilated patients not listening to music.
That ivy may be destroying the façade of your home, but it’s doing all sorts of good things for your neighbors psychologically.
Regular readers to this blog are familiar with a number of ways that the physical environment can be used to enhance mood.
Hua and her colleagues examined the relationship between worker-perceived support for collaboration, individual workstation characteristics, and floor-plan layout.
Roest and Rindfleisch have determined that there are significant reasons to design a restaurant so that it looks like other restaurants of the same type.
Kampfe, Sedimeier, and Renkewitz analyzed information from several studies of the effects of background music on cognitive performance.