Social Influences on Decisions About Value (03-09-11)
When people are asked for their opinion about the value of something and the evaluations of others (particularly friends and peers) are known, their opinions often agree with those others.
When people are asked for their opinion about the value of something and the evaluations of others (particularly friends and peers) are known, their opinions often agree with those others.
People designing spaces that will be used in emergency situations will be interested in research recently published by Shackman and his colleagues.
Recent research with mice may have implications for the design of directional signage systems used by humans.
The GSA Public Buildings Service has comprehensively reviewed the “benefits and challenges of adopting a range of mobility strategies” and outlined mobility-related workplace design principles.
Speed of movement through a space influences memories about that place.
Designers developing residences and treatment facilities for people with multiple sclerosis will find a recently completed study useful.
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire and Yale have determined that people place less monetary value on their possessions if they feel more secure interpersonally (i.e., feel accepted and loved by other people).
Designers are often called upon to create products and places for others, and new research indicates that their standard process of putting themselves in the users’ shoes may pay off in increased creativity.
Tali Hatuka, an architect who leads the Tel Aviv University Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Design, recently discussed aspects of public spaces that increase the likelihood of effective protests and productive civil participation.
The placebo effect has an important influence in both medical and design contexts.