Being Seen as Creative Not Always Good (03-23-11)
Design professionals often strive to establish their reputations as creative individuals.
Design professionals often strive to establish their reputations as creative individuals.
Nanda (American Art Resources) and colleagues Eisen (Texas Christian University) and Owen (East Alabama Medical Center) have investigated the relationship between art viewed by psychiatric patents and their medication use.
Wann and his colleagues have conducted an experiment that again confirms that not everyone perceives the same scene in the same way.
Athanasopoulos and his colleagues present additional evidence that the language we speak influences our experience of the world.
Parents are more or less likely to give permission for their children to participate in research studies depending on the text of the message requesting their permission for their child to take part.
When consumers write their names before they begin shopping, even if they do so for reasons not related to the shopping trip, their shopping behavior is altered.
People over 50 who garden are more satisfied with their personal lives and level of physical activity than non-gardeners.
Wray Herbert, a well-respected science writer, discusses psychological heuristics in his new book, and some of them are useful to designers.
Designers often ask users questions during the programming process that require comparison, discussion, and selection of options that are either familiar or novel.
Recent work by Casasanto and Chrysikou supports previous work showing that “Right-and left-handers implicitly associate positive ideas like ‘goodness’ and honesty’ more strongly with their dominant side of space, the side on which they can act more fluently, and negative ideas more strongly with their nondominant hand.”