The Power of Placebos (12-20-10)
Research done at the Harvard Medical School indicates that medical placebos are effective at reducing symptoms – even when the people taking them realize that they don’t have active ingredients.
Research done at the Harvard Medical School indicates that medical placebos are effective at reducing symptoms – even when the people taking them realize that they don’t have active ingredients.
In this blog, I frequently discuss ways the physical environment can be used to increase the likelihood that people are in a positive mood.
Regular readers to this blog are familiar with a number of ways that the physical environment can be used to enhance mood.
Kampfe, Sedimeier, and Renkewitz analyzed information from several studies of the effects of background music on cognitive performance.
New evidence indicates that the physical form of our brain causes us to literally see the same scene differently than others, whose brains inevitably are not identical to ours.
Brager and Baker investigated occupant satisfaction in mixed-mode buildings.
What sort of architectural elements are most likely to be present in buildings where people get lost most frequently?
Maddux and his colleagues studied cultural differences in the endowment effect (the tendency of owners to value objects more than potential buyers of those objects).
European researchers, using MRI technology, have found that the color of light we are experiencing influences our emotional processing.
New research indicates how important it is for place design research and conversations to be conducted in the languages of the people that will ultimately use spaces being developed.