Traffic Noise and Obesity
Hearing our way to tubbiness
Hearing our way to tubbiness
National culture has a significant effect on design preferences and expectations.
Whether they feature wood grain or are distinguished by a texture or a color or something else, particular finishes have been linked to specific psychological effects by research in the cognitive sciences.
Research Design Connections has previously reported on research linking walking through doorways and forgetting.
Having someone able to see what we’re doing is sometimes a good thing and sometimes not.
Awe, which can result from being in or viewing both built and natural environments, is a hot research topic.
Preferred acoustics seem to vary by culture.
Babisch reports that sound may be having a significant negative effect on human health.
Researchers at Cornell learned that sound levels being experienced influence the taste of food and their findings will be published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Maula and his team investigated the effect of slightly elevated temperatures on performance.