When SEI, a leading provider of investment accounting and administrative services, developed a workplace environment consistent with its organizational culture, it reaped significant rewards.
Adolescents and young adults take more risks than older and younger individuals because they are unable to effectively regulate their risk taking impulses.
The General Services Administration (GSA) has identified characteristics of innovative workplaces.
Men and women sitting with good posture have different responses to learning that they have performed well on an intelligence test, according to a recent study.
Objects and patterns with curved features are preferred to those with pointed features and sharp angles
When shown images, Asians tend to focus more on the image as a whole, while Westerners are more apt to focus on foreground objects.
Peacock interviewed residents of naturally-built homes about the experience of living in these structures and noted several themes in their comments.
The way that people think about their relationships with others influences their preferences for different sorts of shapes.
Smelling sweet smells associated with sweet tasting foods (such as caramel) increases pain tolerance.
People e-mailed requests to participate in an online survey (whether the survey itself or a link to the survey appears in the e-mail) often forward these requests on to other people, which results in what is known as the “pass-along” effect.
