Mood and Choices (03-12-12)
Di Muro and Murray studied links between consumer moods and product choices.
Di Muro and Murray studied links between consumer moods and product choices.
Devlin and Nasar continue their important and innovative research on the design of therapists’ offices.
Research continues on embodied cognition, highlighting links between physical and mental experience.
Restorative experiences, those that help people restock their mental energy after cognitively exhausting work, are important for psychological well-being.
Radel’s research supports previous studies indicating “that what’s going on inside our head affects our senses.”
Tony McCaffrey developed the generic-parts technique (GPT) to increase the odds that innovative solutions to problems are uncovered.
It seems clear that the clothes we wear have some influence on how we think, but this topic has not been thoroughly researched.
Researchers continue to investigate how our sensory experiences are integrated.
The Daylighting Cooperative has enhanced their website (http://www.daylighting.org/).
Baron examines “the interpretive processes historians engage in when ‘reading’ historic buildings,” “examines what qualifies as historical thinking about historic buildings and sites,” and ponders using historic buildings as an educational tool.